26 Bible Verses about Abraham, Testing And Victory

Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.

When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)

After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."

And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground,

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.

And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"

When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,

And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.

And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.

Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.

And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

The LORDvisited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised.

But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.

At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."

Now after these things it was told to Abraham, "Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.