Romans 4:1 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ But if so, what can we say about Abraham, our forefather by natural descent?

⁹ instead of presuming to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

⁸ Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

²⁴ so he called out, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me, send Lazarus to dip his fingertip in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in these flames.' ²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.

²⁹ 'They have got Moses and the prophets,' said Abraham, 'they can listen to them.' ³⁰ 'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone only goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' ³¹ He said to him, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, not even if one rose from the dead."

³³ "We are Abraham's offspring," they retorted, "we have never been slaves to anybody. What do you mean by saying, 'You will be free'?"

³⁷ I know you are Abraham's offspring! Yet you want to kill me, since my word makes no headway among you! ³⁸ I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you act as you have learned from your father." ³⁹ They answered him, "Abraham is our father." "If you are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then do as Abraham did; ⁴⁰ but now you want to kill me — to kill a man who has told you the truth, the truth I have learned from God. Abraham did not do that. ⁴¹ You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God."

⁵³ Are you greater than our father Abraham? He is dead, and the prophets are dead. Who do you claim to be?"

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham exulted that he was to see my Day: he did see it and he rejoiced."

²⁶ Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

¹⁶ That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham — of Abraham who is the father of us all

¹ Now what are we to infer from this? That we are to 'remain on in sin, so that there may be all the more grace'?

⁷ What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

³¹ Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

²² Are they Hebrews? so am I. Israelites? so am I. Descended from Abraham? so am I.

⁹ Why, we had fathers of our flesh to discipline us, and we yielded to them! Shall we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so live?