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, "Now [as for] you, you must keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you, throughout their generations.

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

You found his heart faithful before you and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite--to give [it] to his seed. And you have kept your word because you are righteous.

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

who are Israelites, [to] whom [belong] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the [temple] service, and the promises,

For I say, Christ has become a servant of the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers,

And if you [are] Christ's, then you are descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

And in

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

Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed on account of him.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring, because you have listened to my voice."

And I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and I will give to your descendants all these lands. And all nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring,

Your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, and to the east, and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants, [that] he would be heir of the world, [was] not through the law, but through the righteousness by faith.

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the good news in advance to Abraham: "In you all the nations will be blessed."

General references

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

But you, brothers, are children of the promise, just as Isaac.