Galatians 3:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Might

General references

Romans 3:28

Galatians 3:9

Bible References

Might

I want to ask you only this one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by doing what the law commands, or by believing the message you heard?

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba," that is, "Father."

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who continue to ask Him?"

And I will send down upon you what my Father has promised. But you, on your part, must stay right here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

By this He referred to the Spirit that those believing in Him were going to receive -- for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

And once while He was eating with them, He charged them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," He said,

So He has been exalted to God's right hand and has received from His Father, as promised, and poured out upon us the Holy Spirit, as you see and hear.

We and the Holy Spirit that God has given to those who practice obedience to Him are witnesses to these things."

Then the Jewish believers who had gone along with Peter were astounded because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been showered upon the heathen too,

When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them as He did upon us at the beginning,

But you are not living on the plane of the lower nature, but on the spiritual plane, if the Spirit of God has His home within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

For by one Spirit all of us, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen, have been baptized into one body, and were all imbued with one Spirit.

and put His seal upon us, and given us His Spirit in our hearts as a first installment of future rewards.

You too, as you have heard the message of the truth, the good news that means your salvation, and as you have trusted in Him too, have been stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

for it is by Him through one Spirit that both of us now have an introduction to the Father.

and beg Him to grant you, in accordance with the riches of His perfect character, to be mightily strengthened by His Spirit in your inmost being,

You must stop offending the Holy Spirit of God by whom you have been stamped for the day of redemption.

Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

These are men who cause divisions; mere animals, destitute of any spiritual nature,

General references

For we hold that a man is brought into right standing with God by faith, that observance of the law has no connection with it.

So the men of faith are blessed as partners with trusting Abraham.