Galatians 3:26 Cross References - Moffatt

²⁶ you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus

¹² On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name, ¹³ who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

¹⁷ Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"

¹⁴ For the sons of God are those who are guided by the Spirit of God. ¹⁵ You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!", ¹⁶ it is this Spirit testifying along with our own spirit that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ — for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

¹⁸ I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty.

⁵ to ransom those who were under the Law, that we might get our sonship. ⁶ It is because you are sons that God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 'Abba! Father!'

⁵ destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will,

¹ Copy God, then, as his beloved children,

¹⁵ so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

¹⁰ In bringing many sons to glory, it was befitting that He for whom and by whom the universe exists, should perfect the Pioneer of their salvation by suffering. ¹¹ For sanctifier and sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, ¹² saying, 'I will proclaim thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the church I will sing of thee,' ¹³ and again, 'I will put my trust in him,' and again, 'Here am I and the children God has given me.' ¹⁴ Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil) ¹⁵ and release from thraldom those who lay under a life-long fear of death.

¹ 'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him. ² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is.

⁷ The conqueror shall obtain this, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son;