Galatians 3:29 Cross References - Riverside

²⁹ If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according to the promise.

¹² and the father of the circumcised, that is, of those who are not only circumcised, but who walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while uncircumcised. ¹³ It was not through the Law that the promise came to Abraham or to his descendants that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is emptied of value and the promise is nullified.

¹⁶ Therefore all depends on faith, that it may be of grace, and thus the promise be sure for all his descendants, not only those who are of the Law, but also those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all of us ¹⁷ (as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations"), in the view of the God whom he believed, who makes alive the dead and calls things that are not as if they were. ¹⁸ Abraham, when hope was past, believed in hope so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said to him, "So shall your descendants be"; ¹⁹ and without being weakened in faith he recognized his own body as dead, when he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. ²⁰ Still he did not hesitate through want of faith in the promise of God, but was strong in faith, thus giving glory to God, ²¹ and was fully confident that what God had promised he was able to perform.

¹⁷ And if children, we are also heirs — heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.

⁷ nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children; but "through Isaac shall your descendants be named." ⁸ That is, not the physical descendants are children, but the children of the promise are counted for descendants.

²² Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come — all are yours ²³ and you are Christ's and Christ is God's.

²³ But each in his own order. The first-fruit is Christ, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

⁷ Look at what is right before your eyes. If any one is confident that he belongs to Christ, let him again consider this regarding himself, that just as he belongs to Christ so also do we.

⁷ You know, then, that those who are of faith — they are children of Abraham.

¹⁶ But the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "and to offsprings," as meaning many, but as if meaning one, "and to your offspring," who is Christ.

²⁸ There cannot be Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: for you all are one in Christ Jesus.

⁷ So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then also an heir, through God's act.

²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one born of the slave girl and one born of the free wife. ²³ But he who was born of the slave girl was born according to the flesh, while he who was born of the free wife was born by promise. ²⁴ This is an allegory. For these women are the two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery. This is Hagar. ²⁵ Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She represents the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free and she is our mother. ²⁷ For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who feel no birth pangs! For many are the children of the desolate — more than those of her who has a husband." ²⁸ But you, brethren, are, as Isaac was, children of promise. ²⁹ But just as then he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now. ³⁰ But what says the Scripture? "Cast out the slave girl and her son. For the son of the slave girl shall not inherit along with the son of the free wife." ³¹ Therefore, brethren, we are not children of a slave girl, but of the free wife.

²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

⁶ namely, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, fellow sharers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the good news, ⁷ that we might be declared righteous by his grace and become heirs with the hope of life eternal."

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service in behalf of those who are to inherit salvation?

¹⁷ In this case God being abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable purpose of his will gave the surety of an oath,

⁷ By faith Noah, after receiving a divine warning regarding things as yet unseen, reverently built an ark for the saving of his household. Thus he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness of faith.

¹⁸ regarding whom it had been said, "Those only whose descent is through Isaac shall be called your descendants."

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

⁷ He who conquers shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be to me a son.