39 In answer they said to him: “Our father is Abraham.”+ Jesus said to them: “If YOU are Abraham’s children,+ do the works of Abraham.

16 On this account it was as a result of faith, that it might be according to undeserved kindness,+ in order for the promise+ to be sure to all his seed,+ not only to that which adheres to the Law, but also to that which adheres to the faith of Abraham. (He is the father+ of us all,