You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your offspring shall all the peoples of the earth be blessed.
For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his descendents through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Now to Abraham and his offspring were the promises made. He did not say, And to offsprings, as of many; but as of one, And to your offspring, which is Christ.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.