8 Bear fruits min keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have nAbraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
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Acts 26:20
but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father
and to Sarah who bore you;
for he was but one when I called him,
that I might bless him and multiply him.
John 8:39
They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,
Romans 4:1
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?
James 2:21
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
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