Luke 3:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Fruits

Hebrews 6:7

We

Romans 9:7

Of these

Galatians 3:28

Bible References

Fruits

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

We

There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.

And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.

Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

Of these

And he said in answer, I say to you, if these men keep quiet, the very stones will be crying out.

And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests were resting, twelve stones, and take them over with you and put them down in the place where you take your rest tonight.

And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:

For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.