What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

For, if Abraham was justified by works, he has ground of boasting, but not toward God.

For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness."

Does this happiness, therefore, come upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say, "Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness."

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

For, not through law, was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but it was through the righteousness of faith.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children; but, "In Isaac shall your seed be called."

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.