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Want to know what the Bible says about Abraham? Here are 121 Bible verses about Abraham from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Nehemiah 9:7 NIV
“You are the Lord God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.
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Leviticus 19:2 NIV
“Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.
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Hebrews 11:17-19 NIV
17 By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” 19 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.
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Genesis 12:1-3 NIV
12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation,
    and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.
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Matthew 3:9 NIV
And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
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Genesis 13:4 NIV
and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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Genesis 21:5 NIV
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
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James 2:21-24 NIV
21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.
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Genesis 22:11 NIV
But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
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Genesis 13:2 NIV
Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
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