Matthew 3:9
3:9 and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
John 8:33-44
8:33 “We are descendants
of Abraham,” they replied,
“and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say,
‘You will become free’?”
8:34 Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth,
everyone who practices
sin is a slave
of sin.
8:35 The slave does not remain in the family
forever, but the son remains forever.
8:36 So if the son
sets you free, you will be really free.
8:37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants.
But you want
to kill me, because my teaching
makes no progress among you.
8:38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the
Father;
as for you,
practice the things you have heard from the
Father!”
8:39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.
8:40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!
8:41 You people are doing the deeds of your father.”
Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”
8:42 Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.
8:43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.
8:44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
Romans 4:12-13
4:12 And he is also the father of the circumcised,
who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.
4:13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
Romans 9:4-8
9:4 who are Israelites. To them belong
the adoption as sons,
the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship,
and the promises.
9:5 To them belong the patriarchs,
and from them,
by human descent,
came the Christ,
who is God over all, blessed forever!
Amen.
9:6 It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
9:7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”
9:8 This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.
Galatians 3:19
3:19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.
Galatians 4:22-31
4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the
slave woman and the other by the free woman.
4:23 But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent,
while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.
4:24 These things may be treated as an allegory,
for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.
4:25 Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
4:26 But the Jerusalem above is free,
and she is our mother.
4:27 For it is written:
“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children;
break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains,
because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous
than those of the woman who has a husband.”
4:28 But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.
4:29 But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.
4:30 But what does the scripture say? “Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman.
4:31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.