But the statement it was credited to him ¹  was not written only for Abraham’s ²  sake,

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.