For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual perversions, murders,

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within 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.

But knowing their thoughts, answering, Jesus said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.

And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, since I have nowhere to gather my fruits?

Son of man, they who inhabit the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, Abraham was one, and he took possession of the land. But we are many; the land is given to us as a possession.

Then he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

They answered Him, We are Abraham's seed, and have been in slavery to no one at any time. How can You say, You will be made free?

They answered and said to Him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

Are You greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died. Whom do You make Yourself out to be?

Men and brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the Word of this salvation is sent.

What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those believing through uncircumcision, that righteousness might be accounted to them also;

For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

because the Law brings about wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac your Seed shall be called.

That is, those who are the children of flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are accounted as seed.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman.

which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar;

but the Jerusalem from above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven.

But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But He answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.

Simon has declared how God at the first looked upon the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name.

(as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations) in the presence of Him whom he believed; God, who makes the dead alive and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are mighty;

and the low-born of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,

For as many of you as were immersed into Christ have put on Christ.

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.