⁵ Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.

¹⁶ Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

⁶ Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

¹⁸ And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

²¹ Was not the righteousness of Abraham our father judged by his works, when he made an offering of Isaac his son on the altar?

⁸ By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

⁵⁸ For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

¹⁹ Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.

² You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

⁴ See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

⁵ May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁶ May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

² His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

¹⁹ For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

²³ And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

⁴ So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.