Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.”
You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’
nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.”
And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise,
Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.