who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

And I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers,

for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

the law, then, is against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed,

and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.