Acts 3:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

The covenant

Galatians 3:29

And in

Galatians 3:8

General references

Micah 7:20

Galatians 4:28

Bible References

The covenant

And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

which he confirmed as a statute to Jacob, as an everlasting covenant to Israel,

You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

And in

I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."

General references

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.