⁷ Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”^[a](A)

¹² But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring^[a] will be reckoned.^(A)

¹⁸ even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”^[a](A)

³⁷ I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me,^(A) because you have no room for my word. ³⁸ I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence,^(B) and you are doing what you have heard from your father.^[a]”^(C)

³⁹ “Abraham is our father,” they answered.

“If you were Abraham’s children,”^(D) said Jesus, “then you would^[b] do what Abraham did.

²³ His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh,^(A) but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.^(B)

³ For it is we who are the circumcision,^(A) we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus,^(B) and who put no confidence in the flesh—

⁸ Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’^(A) For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

³³ They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants^(A) and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”

³⁰ “‘No, father Abraham,’^(A) he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’