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

¹² But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

¹⁸ Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

⁸ Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

²⁴ And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

³⁰ And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.

³³ They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

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.

³⁸ I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

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.

²³ Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

³ For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh: