James 2:21

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Summary

James 2:21

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

Abraham

When

Genesis 22:9

General references

Genesis 22:10

Genesis 26:5

James 2:24

Bible References

Abraham

Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac.

“Look to Abraham your father
And to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain;
When he was but one I called him,
Then I blessed him and multiplied him.”

and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

The oath which He swore to Abraham our father,

And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’

They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus *said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham.

And he said, “Hear me, brethren and fathers! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?

When

Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

General references

Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

because Abraham

obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”

You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.