"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If any man's brother die, and leave a wife behind, and leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.'

(as He spake to our fathers), to Abraham and to his seed forever."

Did not the Scriptures say, that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

but he is a Jew, who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Know, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his Seed. He saith not, "And to seeds," as of many; but as of One, "and to your Seed"; which is Christ.

There exists neither Jew nor Greek, there exists neither bond nor free, there exists neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Whosoever has been begotten of God sins not; because His seed abides in him, and he cannot sin because he has been begotten of God.