We are Jews by birth. We are not sinful Gentiles.

我们这生来的犹太人，不是外邦的罪人；

我们生来就是犹太人，不是外邦罪人；

我们生来就是犹太人，不是外邦罪人；

我们生来是犹太人，不是外族罪人，

我们生来是犹太人，不是外族中的罪人；

我们生来是犹太人，不是“外邦中的罪人”，

我們這生來的猶太人，不是外邦的罪人；

我們生來就是猶太人，不是外邦罪人；

我們生來就是猶太人，不是外邦罪人；

我們生來是猶太人，不是外族罪人，

我們生來是猶太人，不是外族中的罪人；

我們這生來是猶太人、而不是屬於外國之「罪人」的，

我們生來是猶太人，不是「外邦中的罪人」，

夫我儕本猶太人、非異邦罪人、

我儕本猶太人、非異邦罪人、

我儕本猶太人、非異邦罪人、

吾人為猶太人、而非外邦之罪人、固矣；

“ We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles

We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;

“ You and I are Jews by birth, not‘ sinners’ like the Gentiles.

We are Jews by birth and not“ Gentile sinners,”

“ We are Jews by nature and not sinners from the Gentiles;

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

We who are Jews by birth and not“ Gentile sinners”

We[ who are] Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

“ We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

At one time we too acted like fools. We didn’t obey God. We were tricked. We were controlled by all kinds of desires and pleasures. We were full of evil. We wanted what belongs to others. People hated us, and we hated one another.

At one time we all lived among them. Our desires were controlled by sin. We tried to satisfy what they wanted us to do. We followed our desires and thoughts. God was angry with us like he was with everyone else. That’s because of the kind of people we all were.

You who are not Jews by birth, here is what I want you to remember. You are called“ uncircumcised” by those who call themselves“ circumcised.” But they have only been circumcised in their bodies by human hands.Before you believed in Christ, you were separated from him. You were not considered to be citizens of Israel. You were not included in what the covenants promised. You were without hope and without God in the world.

What should we say then? Do we Jews have any advantage? Not at all! We have already claimed that Jews and Gentiles are sinners. Everyone is under the power of sin.

John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing. He said to them,“ You are like a nest of poisonous snakes! Who warned you to escape the coming of God’s anger?Live in a way that shows you have turned away from your sins.Don’t think you can say to yourselves,‘ Abraham is our father.’ I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham even from these stones.

I have many reasons to trust in who I am and what I have done. Someone else may think they have reasons to trust in these things. But I have even more.

“ Then the Lord said to me,‘ Go. I will send you far away to people who are not Jews.’ ”

“ Abraham is our father,” they answered. Jesus said,“ Are you really Abraham’s children? If you are, you will do what Abraham did.But you are looking for a way to kill me. I am a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do the things you want to do.You are doing what your own father does.”“ We have the right to claim to be God’s children,” they objected.“ The only Father we have is God himself.”

She was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.“ First let the children eat all they want,” he told her.“ It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”“ Lord,” she replied,“ even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

The Pharisees saw this. So they asked the disciples,“ Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

He sent you to do something for him. He said,‘ Go and completely destroy the Amalekites. Go and destroy those evil people. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’

The promise is based on God’s grace. The promise comes by faith. All of Abraham’s children will certainly receive the promise. And it is not only for those who are ruled by the law. Those who have the same faith that Abraham had are also included. He is the father of us all.