Galatians 3:29 Cross References - Lamsa

²⁹ So if you belong to Christ, then you are descendants of Abraham, and his heirs according to the promise.

¹² So that the father of circumcision is not only to those who are of circumcision, but also to those who walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham while he was yet uncircumcised. ¹³ For the promise to Abraham and his seed that he should inherit the world was not made through the law, but through the righteousness of his faith. ¹⁴ For if they had become heirs by means of the law, then faith would have been empty and the promise made of no effect.

¹⁶ Therefore it is by faith that we will be justified by grace; so that the promise might be sure to all his seed; not only to him who is of the law, but also to him who is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all, ¹⁷ As it is written, I have made you a father of many peoples, in the presence of the God in whom you have believed, who quickens the dead, and who invites those who are not yet in being, as though they were present. ¹⁸ For he who was hopeless trusted in hope, that he might become the father of many peoples, as it is written, So shall your seed be. ¹⁹ His faith never weakened even when he examined his old body when he was a hundred years old, and the deadness of SarahÆs womb. ²⁰ He did not doubt the promise of God as one who lacks faith; but his faith gave him strength, and he gave glory to God. ²¹ He felt assured that what God had promised him, God was able to fulfill.

¹⁷ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ; so that if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.

⁷ Neither, because they are of the seed of Abraham are they all his children: for it was said, In Isaac shall your seed be called. ⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; but the children of the promise who are reckoned as descendants.

²² Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all things are yours; ²³ And you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.

²³ But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they who belong to Christ at his coming.

⁷ Do you judge by outward appearance? If any man thinks of himself that he belongs to Christ, let him know this of himself, that just as he belongs to Christ, so we also belong.

⁷ You must know therefore, that those who trust on faith are the children of Abraham.

¹⁶ Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his seed as a covenant. He did not say, To your seeds, as of many, but to your seed, as one, that is Christ.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Syrian, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Jesus Christ.

⁷ From now on you are not servants but sons; and if sons, then heirs of God through Jesus Christ.

²² For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by a bondmaid, and one by a freewoman. ²³ But he who was born of the bondmaid was born after the flesh; but he who was born of the freewoman was born by promise. ²⁴ Now these things are a symbol of the two covenants; the one from Mount Sinai, give girls birth to bondage, which is Hagar. ²⁵ For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and surrenders to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem which is above is free, and is the mother of us all. ²⁷ For as it is written, Make merry, O you barren who bear not; rejoice and cry, O you who travail not; for the children of the forsaken are more numerous than the children of the one who is favored. ²⁸ Now we, my brethren, are the children of promise, as was Isaac. ²⁹ But as then he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. ³⁰ Nevertheless what does the scripture say? Cast out the bondmaid and her son; for the son of the maidservant shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman. ³¹ So then, my brethren, we are not children of the maidservant but children of the freewoman.

²⁴ And those who belong to Christ have controlled their weaknesses and passions.

⁶ That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and partakers of his body and of the promise which is given through him by the gospel, ⁷ That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth in the service for those who shall inherit life everlasting?

¹⁷ Therefore, because God wanted more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise that his agreement was unchangeable, he sealed it by an oath.

⁷ By faith Noah, when he was warned concerning the things not seen, became fearful and he made an ark to save his household, and by it he condemned the world and he became heir of righteousness which is by faith.

¹⁸ Of whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

⁵ Hear this, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of the world who are rich in faith, to be heirs of the kingdom which God has promised to those who love him?

⁷ He who overcomes shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.