Live lives which shall prove your change of heart; and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

So he cried aloud, and said, "'Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.'

Turning towards him, Jesus replied, "To-day salvation has come to this house, seeing that he too is a son of Abraham.

"Brethren, descendants of the family of Abraham, and all among you who fear God, to us has this Message of salvation been sent.

and the forefather of the circumcised, namely of those who not merely are circumcised, but also walk in the steps of the faith which our forefather Abraham had while he was as yet uncircumcised.

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where a woman was present who for eighteen years had been a confirmed invalid: she was bent double, and was unable to lift herself to her full height.

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

and recover sober-mindedness and freedom from the Devil's snare, though they are now entrapped by him to do his will.

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But Jesus saw her, and calling to her, He said to her, "Woman, you are free from your weakness."

And Jesus said to them: "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath;

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so that the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."