⁶ So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”^[a](A)

⁸ Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”^[a](A)

¹⁶ The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.^(A) Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,”^[a](B) meaning one person, who is Christ.

²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman^(A) and the other by the free woman.^(B)

²⁶ But the Jerusalem that is above^(A) is free, and she is our mother.