You Are of Your Father the Devil

³⁹ They answered him, ^(A)“Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, ^(B)“If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,

⁷ Know then that it is ^(A)those of faith who are ^(B)the sons of Abraham.

⁷ and not all are children of Abraham ^(A)because they are his offspring, but ^(B)“Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”

³⁷ I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet ^(A)you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.

²⁸ For ^(A)no one is a Jew ^(B)who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. ²⁹ But a Jew is one ^(C)inwardly, and ^(D)circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. ^(E)His praise is not from man but from God.

^45 (A)so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and ^(B)sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

⁹ And do not presume to say to yourselves, ^(A)‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from ^(B)these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

²² You see that ^(A)faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed ^(B)by his works; ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, ^(C)“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a ^(D)friend of God. ²⁴ You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

²⁹ And ^(A)if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, ^(B)heirs according to promise.

¹⁶ That is why it depends on faith, ^(A)in order that the promise may rest on grace and ^(B)be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, ^(C)who is the father of us all,