What advantage then shall we say that Abraham our father had as to the flesh?

For if Abraham was accepted as righteous through works, he hath ground of boasting. But he hath no ground of boasting before God.

For what saith the scripture? "Abraham had faith in God, and it was accounted unto him as righteousness."

Doth this blessedness belong to the circumcised alone, or to the uncircumcised also? For we are saying that Abrahams faith was accounted as righteousness.

and that he might be the father of the circumcised, who are not circumcised merely, but who tread in the steps of that faith which our father Abraham had while yet uncircumcised.

For not through the Law was the promise made to Abraham or his offspring that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

Therefore the inheritance was made to depend on faith, that it might be a matter of grace; that the promise might be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is under the Law, but to that also which hath the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children; but, "Thy offspring shall be reckoned from Isaac."

I say then, Hath God cast off his people? Far be it I For I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.