What shall we say then that Abraham our father found according to the flesh?

For if Abraham was justified by works he has [occasion for] boasting, but not before God.

For what says the Scripture? And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Is this blessedness then on the circumcision? or also on the uncircumcision? [Also on the uncircumcision.] For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

and a father of circumcision not to those of the circumcision only, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which was in uncircumcision.

For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all,

neither, because they are a posterity of Abraham, are they all children; but in Isaac shall your posterity be called;

I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.