³⁹ In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

⁷ Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

⁷ And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

³⁷ I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

⁹ And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

²² You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them;

²³ And the holy Writings were put into effect which said, And Abraham had faith in God and it was put to his account as righteousness; and he was named the friend of God.

²⁴ You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only.

²⁹ And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

¹⁶ For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

¹² And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

²⁸ The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

⁴⁵ So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.