With my own eyes I have seen your salvation,

Then those who are now last will be first, and those who are now first will be last."

I have sent you to reap a harvest in a field where you did not work; others worked there, and you profit from their work."

So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them, and Jesus stayed there two days.

and they told the woman, "We believe now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

Then he led them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

Then they preached the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in the house.

Surely you know that the wicked will not possess God's Kingdom. Do not fool yourselves; people who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual perverts

Some of you were like that. But you have been purified from sin; you have been dedicated to God; you have been put right with God by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

At one time you were not God's people, but now you are his people; at one time you did not know God's mercy, but now you have received his mercy.

Now here is this descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept in bonds for eighteen years; should she not be released on the Sabbath?"

He was circumcised later, and his circumcision was a sign to show that because of his faith God had accepted him as righteous before he had been circumcised. And so Abraham is the spiritual father of all who believe in God and are accepted as righteous by him, even though they are not circumcised.

He is also the father of those who are circumcised, that is, of those who, in addition to being circumcised, also live the same life of faith that our father Abraham lived before he was circumcised.

And so the promise was based on faith, in order that the promise should be guaranteed as God's free gift to all of Abraham's descendants---not just to those who obey the Law, but also to those who believe as Abraham did. For Abraham is the spiritual father of us all;

You should realize, then, that the real descendants of Abraham are the people who have faith.

Christ did this in order that the blessing which God promised to Abraham might be given to the Gentiles by means of Christ Jesus, so that through faith we might receive the Spirit promised by God.

If you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham and will receive what God has promised.