Bible Verses About Abraham

And Jesus said unto him--`To-day salvation did come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;

They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say--Ye shall become free?'

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

and the servant doth not remain in the house--to the age, the son doth remain--to the age;

if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

`I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

I--that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father--ye do.'

They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

and now, ye seek to kill me--a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death--to the age!

Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?'

Jesus answered, `If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;

and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you--speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'

The Jews, therefore, said unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?'

Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming--I am;'

they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

and he said, `Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,

and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee.

`Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein ye now dwell,

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast--but not before God;

for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;'

and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;

and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned--to righteousness: