And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’
Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring wil
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered?
Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my to
“Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham
Knowing what they were thinking, Jesus replied, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the k
Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”
“I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the str
Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircum
When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who thi
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to th
So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’