Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.
James 2:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works in offering Isaac his son on the altar? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Was not our forefather Abraham [shown to be] justified (made acceptable to God) by [his] works when he brought to the altar as an offering his [own] son Isaac? [Gen. 22:1-14.] American Standard Version (1901) Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? Common English Bible What about Abraham, our father? Wasn’t he shown to be righteous through his actions when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? Catholic Public Domain Version Was not our father Abraham justified by means of works, by offering his son Isaac upon the altar? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar? |
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.’
And don’t presume to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.” For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
“Father Abraham! ” he called out, “Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame! ”
‘ “No, father Abraham,” he said. “But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.”
‘Our father is Abraham,’ they replied. ‘If you were Abraham’s children,’ Jesus told them, ‘you would do what Abraham did.
Are you greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets died. Who do you claim to be? ’
‘Brothers and fathers,’ he replied, ‘listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,
For no one will be justified in his sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?
And he became the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised.
This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants #– #not only to the one who is of the law but also to the one who is of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all.
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He received the promises and yet he was offering his one and only son,
But someone will say, ‘You have faith, and I have works.’ Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith by my works.
But I took your father Abraham from the region beyond the River Euphrates, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,