Galatians 3:29

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Summary

Galatians 3:29

And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Christ's

Abraham's

Hebrews 11:18

Heirs

General references

Romans 3:29

Galatians 3:9

Galatians 4:28

Bible References

Christ's

Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings.

But you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him.

You look at things externally. If anyone is sure he belongs to Christ, let him think again and understand that I belong to Christ just as much as he.

Abraham's

So you see, the real descendants of Abraham are the men of faith.

For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl, and one by the free woman.

and the forefather of those circumcised persons who not only share his circumcision but follow our forefather Abraham's example in the faith he had before he was circumcised.

nor are they all children of Abraham because they are descended from him, but he was told, "The line of Isaac will be called your descendants."

of whom he had been told, "Your posterity is to arise through Isaac!"

Heirs

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir, made so by God.

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants that the world should belong to him did not come to him or his descendants through the Law, but through the uprightness that resulted from his faith.

and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news

so that we might be made upright through his mercy and become possessors of eternal life in fulfilment of our hope.

Are not the angels all spirits in service, whom he sends on his errands for the good of those who are destined to possess salvation?

Therefore, God in his desire to make it perfectly clear to those to whom he made his promise, that his purpose was unalterable, bound himself with an oath,

Faith led Noah, when he was warned by God of things no one then saw, in obedience to the warning to build an ark in which to save his family, and by such faith he condemned the world, and came to possess that uprightness which faith produces.

Listen, my dear brothers. Has not God chosen the world's poor to be rich in faith, and to possess the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

He who is victorious will possess all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

General references

Does God belong to the Jews alone? Does he not belong to the heathen too? Of course he belongs to the heathen too;

So the men of faith share the blessing of Abraham and his faith.

Now we, brothers, are like Isaac, children born in fulfilment of the promise.