Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
James 2:21 - Y'all Version Bible Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up 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? |
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Look to Abraham y’all’s father, and to Sarah who bore y’all; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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.
So he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames.’
“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If y’all were Abraham’s children, y’all would do the works of Abraham.
Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died too. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “Y’all must listen to me: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
For by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified before ʜɪᴍ, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered?
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.
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.
By faith, when he was tested, Abraham offered up Isaac. He gladly received the promises, but was ready to offer his only begotten son,
But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
I took y’all’s father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac.