Romans 4:1

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 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.
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
  • Rom 8:31 : 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
  • Luke 3:8 : 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
  • Luke 16:24-25 : 24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.' 25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
  • Luke 16:29-31 : 29 "But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.' 30 "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' 31 "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
  • John 8:33 : 33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"
  • John 8:37-41 : 37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father." 39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this. 41 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
  • John 8:53 : 53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
  • John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."
  • Acts 13:26 : 26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
  • Rom 6:1 : 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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  • Rom 4:2-6
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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

    3For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

    4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

    5But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

    6Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

  • Rom 4:9-13
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    9Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

    10How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    11He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

    12He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

    13For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

  • Rom 4:16-18
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    16For 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.

    17As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

    18Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

  • Jas 2:21
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    21Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

  • Gal 3:6-9
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    6Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

    7Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

    8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

    9So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  • Gal 4:22-23
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    22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

    23However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

  • Gal 4:28
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    28Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

  • Rom 9:30
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    30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

  • John 8:39
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    39They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Rom 9:5
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    5of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

  • Rom 9:10
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    10Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

  • Gal 3:14-15
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    14that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

    15Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

  • Matt 1:1
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    1The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

  • Jas 2:23
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    23and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

  • Rom 3:1
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    1Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

  • Rom 4:22
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    22Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."

  • Gen 17:4
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    4"As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

  • Matt 3:9
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    9Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

  • Rom 9:14
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    14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

  • Gal 3:18
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    18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

  • Luke 3:8
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    8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

  • Rom 6:1
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

  • 1 Chr 1:27
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    27Abram (the same is Abraham).

  • Rom 8:31
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    31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

  • Luke 1:73
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    73the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,

  • Gal 2:16
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    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

  • Acts 7:2
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    2He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

  • Rom 3:28
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    28We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Rom 4:24
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    24but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

  • Gal 4:31
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    31So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

  • Rom 9:8
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    8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.