⁸ Therefore produce fruit^(A) consistent with repentance. And don’t start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’^(B) for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

³³ “We are descendants^[a] of Abraham,”^(A) they answered him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”

³⁹ “Our father is Abraham,” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.^(A)

²⁶ “Brothers and sisters, children of Abraham’s race, and those among you who fear God, it is to us that the word of this salvation has been sent.^(A)

Abraham Justified by Faith

4 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather^(A) according to the flesh, has found?^[a]