Trouvé 549 Résultats pour: sheep and cattle of Abraham
Abraham believed and hoped against all expectation, thus becoming father of many nations, as he had been told: See how many will be your descendants. (Romans 4, 18)
As the Scripture says: For your sake we are being killed all day long; they treat us like sheep to be slaughtered. (Romans 8, 36)
And not because they are of the race of Abraham are they all his children, for it was said to him: The children of Isaac will be called your descendants. (Romans 9, 7)
This means that the children of God are not identified with the race of Abraham, but only with the children born to him because of the promise of God. (Romans 9, 8)
And so I ask: Has God rejected his people? Of course not. I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. (Romans 11, 1)
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. (2 Corinthians 11, 22)
Remember Abraham: he believed God and because of this was held to be a just man. (Galatians 3, 6)
Understand then that those who follow the way of faith are sons and daughters of Abraham. (Galatians 3, 7)
The Scriptures foresaw that by the way of faith, God would give true righteousness to the non-Jewish nations. For God's promise to Abraham was this: In you shall all the nations be blessed. (Galatians 3, 8)
So now those who take the way of faith receive the same blessing as Abraham who believed; (Galatians 3, 9)
So the blessing granted to Abraham reached the pagan nations in and with Christ, and we received the promised Spirit through faith. (Galatians 3, 14)
Well now, what God promised Abraham was for his descendant. Scripture does not say: for the descendants, as if they were many. It means only one: this will be for your descendant, and this is Christ. (Galatians 3, 16)
