⁹ and do not think to say to yourselves, ^(A)‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

⁸ Therefore bear fruits ^(A)worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

²⁷ For ^(A)as many of you as were baptized into Christ ^(B)have put on Christ. ^28 (C)There is neither Jew nor Greek, ^(D)there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all ^(E)one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And ^(F)if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s ^(G)seed, and ^(H)heirs according to the promise.

^7 (A)nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, ^(B)“In Isaac your seed shall be called.” ⁸ That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but ^(C)the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

³³ They answered Him, ^(A)“We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made free’?”

²⁶ “Men and brethren, sons of the ^[a]family of Abraham, and ^(A)those among you who fear God, ^(B)to you the ^[b]word of this salvation has been sent.

Abraham Justified by Faith^(A)

4 What then shall we say that ^(B)Abraham our ^(C)father^[a] has found according to the flesh?

²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons: ^(A)the one by a bondwoman, ^(B)the other by a freewoman. ²³ But he who was of the bondwoman ^(C)was born according to the flesh, ^(D)and he of the freewoman through promise, ²⁴ which things are symbolic. For these are ^[a]the two covenants: the one from Mount ^(E)Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— ²⁵ for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— ²⁶ but the ^(F)Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. ²⁷ For it is written:

²⁸ Now ^(H)we, brethren, as Isaac was, are ^(I)children of promise. ²⁹ But, as ^(J)he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, ^(K)even so it is now. ³⁰ Nevertheless what does ^(L)the Scripture say? ^(M)“Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for ^(N)the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” ³¹ So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

⁵³ Are You greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. ^(A)Who do You make Yourself out to be?”