Top 18 Bible Verses About Abraham

Update on January 15, 2020 by Pastor Jack Wellman

Abraham’s journey as we study it in the Bible was very long and challenging. He was a hard worker and experienced both hardships and blessings. For most of his long life, he had to walk blindly, but he held fast and trusted the promise in his heart. God continued to fulfill that promise over a 1000 years after Abraham’s death when it was completion by Jesus Christ.

God always keeps His promises. You can trust God through every one of life’s challenges because His promise has been fulfilled!

Here are our Top 18 Bible Verses about Abraham!

And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.

- Genesis 21:2

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

- John 8:58

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

- Hebrews 6:13

Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

- Genesis 12:1

But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

- Genesis 22:11

Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.

- Joshua 24:3

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

- Romans 4:13

No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

- Genesis 17:5

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

- Genesis 21:5

because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

- Genesis 26:5

And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

- Matthew 3:9

And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

- Galatians 3:29

You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

- Nehemiah 9:7

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

- James 2:21-24

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.

- Hebrews 11:17-19

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,

- Hebrews 11:17

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

- Genesis 15:6

and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

- James 2:23

Total Quotes Found: 18

5 Stories From The Bible About Abraham

Here are 5 stories from the Bible that relate to Abraham the Patriarch.

A Friend of God

We all need friends. What good comes from having friends! They’re there for you when you need them and they need you. Now imagine being called a “friend of God!” Wouldn’t you want to be called a friend of God, just as Jesus called His disciples friend (John 15:15)? James wrote that “the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God” (James 2:23). If you’ve believed in Jesus, and Jesus is God, then He’s your friend too.

A Tested Faith

A faith that’s not been tested is a faith that cannot be trusted. We test drive cars to see if they’re reliable, but when God tested Abraham, it wasn’t so that God would know how much or how little faith he had. It was to reveal to Abraham how strong or weak his faith was, and it was strong, because it was “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son” (Hebrews 11:17). Who among us could pass that test?

Abraham Obeyed God

Scripture tells us that it was “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going” (Hebrews 11:8). Put yourself in Abraham’s place. He left everything he knew; family, his living, his paganism, and probably many friends and family, and then he was told by a God he never knew before to go to place he’d never seen before. That’s faith my friends!

Abraham Believed God

God told Abraham that by his seed, the whole world would be blessed, and that seed, which would come some 2,000 years later, was Jesus Christ. Even in his advanced age…well past the child-bearing years, God told him he would have a son, and what was Abraham’s reaction? It says, “And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness” (Genesis 15:6). We receive the righteousness of God when we believe in Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Abraham’s Offspring

When Jesus introduced the gospel of repentance and faith (Mark 1:15), most of the Jews balked at it. They didn’t believe that they needed to be saved, saying that they are the children of Abraham, but they didn’t understand that it’s not about race…it’s about grace (Ephesians 2:8-9). God does not save people only because they are the children of Abraham….everyone must trust in the Son of God, so “if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise” (Galatians 3:29).

Abraham has been called the Father of the Faithful and the Father of the Jews, and has long since been known for his faith. He was willing to sacrifice his only son of promise because he knew that God was able to raise him up again. Abraham simply believed God, and God accounted that to him as the righteous ness of God.

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