John 8:39 Cross References - Goodspeed

³⁹ They answered, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, then do what Abraham did.

⁹ Do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones!

⁴⁵ so that you may show yourselves true sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on bad and good alike, and makes the rain fall on the upright and the wrongdoers.

³⁷ I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.

²⁸ For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not something physical and external. ²⁹ The real Jew is the man who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, a spiritual, not a literal, thing. Such a man receives his praise not from men, but from God.

¹² and the forefather of those circumcised persons who not only share his circumcision but follow our forefather Abraham's example in the faith he had before he was circumcised.

¹⁶ That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us;

⁷ nor are they all children of Abraham because they are descended from him, but he was told, "The line of Isaac will be called your descendants."

⁷ So you see, the real descendants of Abraham are the men of faith.

²⁹ And if you belong to Christ, then you are true descendants of Abraham and his heirs under the promise.

²² You see that in his case faith and good deeds worked together; faith found its highest expression in good deeds, ²³ and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend." ²⁴ You see a man is made upright by his good deeds and not simply by having faith.