Verse 7
nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”
Referenced Verses
- Gen 21:12 : 12 But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
- Heb 11:18 : 18 God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”
- Luke 3:8 : 8 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
- Luke 16:24-25 : 24 So he called out,‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this fire.’ 25 But Abraham said,‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.
- Luke 16:30 : 30 Then the rich man said,‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
- John 8:33 : 33 “We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied,“and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say,‘You will become free’?”
- John 8:37-39 : 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you. 38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!” 39 They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.
- Gal 4:23 : 23 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.
- Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials