Mat 3:9, Joh 8:39, Rom 9:6-7, Gal 6:15, Rev 2:9 | ISV | STEP | Don't think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our forefather.’ For I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!

Matthew 3:9

9 Don't think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our forefather.’ For I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!John 8:33, 39; Acts 13:26; Rom 4:1, 11, 16

John 8:39

39 They replied to him, “Our father is Abraham!”

Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. ^{▼▼Lit. the works of Abraham}Matt 3:9; John 3:33; Rom 2:28; 9:7; Gal 3:7, 29

Romans 9:6-7

6 Now it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all Israelites truly belong to Israel,Num 23:19; John 8:39; Rom 2:28-29; 3:8; Gal 6:16 7 and not all of Abraham's descendants are his true descendants. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that descendants will be named for you.” ^{▼▼Gen 21:12}Gen 21:12; Gal 4:23; Heb 11:18

Galatians 6:15

15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Rather, what matters is being ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks what matters is being} a new creation.1Cor 7:19; 2Cor 5:17; Gal 5:6; Col 3:11

Revelation of John 2:9

9 ‘I know your suffering, your poverty—though you are rich—and the slander on the part of those who claim to be Jews but aren't. They are the synagogue of Satan.Luke 12:21; Rom 2:17, 28-29; 9:6; 1Tim 6:18; James 2:5; Rev 2:2; 3:9