Romans 4:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

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  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah -- she bringeth you forth, For -- one -- I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:
  • Rom 8:31 : 31 What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God `is' for us, who `is' against us?
  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,
  • Luke 3:8 : 8 make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father -- Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;
  • Luke 16:24-25 : 24 and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame. 25 `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;
  • Luke 16:29-31 : 29 `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; 30 and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform. 31 And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'
  • John 8:33 : 33 They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'
  • John 8:37-41 : 37 `I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you; 38 I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.' 39 They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing; 40 and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not; 41 ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'
  • John 8:53 : 53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?'
  • John 8:56 : 56 Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'
  • Acts 13:26 : 26 `Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
  • Rom 6:1 : 1 What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?

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  • Rom 4:2-6
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    2for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast -- but not before god;

    3for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'

    4and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;

    5and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned -- to righteousness:

    6even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

  • Rom 4:9-13
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    9`Is' this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision -- for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham -- to righteousness?

    10how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

    11and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

    12and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that `is' in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

    13For not through law `is' the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

  • Rom 4:16-18
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    16Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,

    17who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- `A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

    18Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: `So shall thy seed be;'

  • Jas 2:21
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    21Abraham our father -- was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?

  • Gal 3:6-9
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    75%

    6according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;

    7know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,

    8and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --

    9`Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,

  • Gal 4:22-23
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    22for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

    23but he who `is' of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who `is' of the free-woman, through the promise;

  • Gal 4:28
    72%

    28And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

  • Rom 9:30
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    30What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that `is' of faith,

  • John 8:39
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    39They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

    18of whom it was said -- `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

  • Rom 9:5
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    5whose `are' the fathers, and of whom `is' the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.

  • Rom 9:10
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    10And not only `so', but also Rebecca, having conceived by one -- Isaac our father --

  • Gal 3:14-15
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    14that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

    15Brethren, as a man I say `it', even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

  • Matt 1:1
    70%

    1A roll of the birth of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29and if ye `are' of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.

  • Jas 2:23
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    23and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.

  • Rom 3:1
    70%

    1What, then, `is' the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?

  • Rom 4:22
    70%

    22wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

  • Gen 17:4
    70%

    4`I -- lo, My covenant `is' with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

  • Matt 3:9
    70%

    9and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

  • Rom 9:14
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    14What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness `is' with God? let it not be!

  • Gal 3:18
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    18for if by law `be' the inheritance, `it is' no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant `it'.

  • Luke 3:8
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    8make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father -- Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;

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

  • 1 Chr 1:27
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    27Abram -- he `is' Abraham.

  • Rom 8:31
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    31What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God `is' for us, who `is' against us?

  • Luke 1:73
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    73An oath that He sware to Abraham our father,

  • Gal 2:16
    69%

    16having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

  • Acts 7:2
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    2and he said, `Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,

  • Rom 3:28
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    28therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

  • Rom 4:24
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    24but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned -- to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,

  • Gal 4:31
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    31then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed,

  • Rom 9:8
    68%

    8that is, the children of the flesh -- these `are' not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;