¹² and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father ^(A)Abraham had while still uncircumcised.

³⁹ They answered and said to Him, ^(A)“Abraham is our father.”

Jesus said to them, ^(B)“If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. ^40 (C)But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth ^(D)which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

²¹ For ^(A)to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for ^[a]us, ^(B)leaving ^[b]us an example, that you should follow His steps:

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.