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Selected Verse: John 8:39 - King James

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Joh 8:39 King James They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham--He had just said He "knew they were Abraham's children," that is, according to the flesh; but the children of his faith and holiness they were not, but the reverse.
 
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1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: