Romans 4:1 Cross References - Worrell

¹ What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

⁹ and think not to say within yourselves, 'As a father we have Abraham;' for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

⁸ Produce, therefore, fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not to say within yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father'; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

²⁴ And, crying, he 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; because I am in anguish in this flame!' ²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that, in your lifetime, you received in full your good things, and Lazarus, likewise, evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.

²⁹ But Abraham says, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.' ³⁰ But he said, 'Nay, father Abraham; but, if one go to them from the dead, they will repent.' ³¹ But he said to him, 'If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rose from the dead.'"

³³ They answered Him, "We are Abraham's seed, and to no one have we at any time been in bondage; how sayest Thou, 'Ye shall be made free?'

³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye are seeking to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. ³⁸ I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; and ye, therefore, do the things which ye heard from your father. ³⁹ They answered and said to Him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus saith to them, "If ye are children of Abraham, ye are doing the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰ But now ye are seeking to kill Me, a Man Who hath told you the truth, which I heard from My Father: this Abraham did not. ⁴¹ Ye do the works of your father." They say to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God."

⁵³ Art Thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died? Whom makest Thou Thyself?"

⁵⁶ Abraham, your father, rejoiced to see My day; and he saw it, and was glad."

²⁶ Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those among you who fear God, to us the word of this salvation was sent forth.

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

¹ What, then, shall we say? Shall we persist in sin, that grace may abound?

⁷ What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

³¹ What, then, shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

²² Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they Abraham's seed? so am I.

⁹ Furthermore, we used to have the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?