When Abraham was about to kill his son, however, Jehovah stopped him and said: “Now I do know that you are God - fearing in that you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me. ”
उसकी आज्ञाकारिता की वज़ह से, परमेश्‍वर का भय माननेवाला इब्राहीम “परमेश्‍वर का मित्र ” कहलाया । — याकूब २: २३.