that y’all may be children of your* Father who is in heaven. For ʜᴇ causes ʜɪs sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Don’t think y’all can say to yourselves*, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell y’all that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
The reason it is by faith, is so that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise may be guaranteed to all the offspring, not to those of the law, but to that also those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
He is also the father of the circumcised, those who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of faith of our father Abraham before he was circumcised.