To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

And do everything in a decent and orderly manner.

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

In this way you will live a decent life before outsiders and not be in need.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, "Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,