Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

Made

and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.

Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,

By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen,

in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

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 promised to those who love Him?

You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with

someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

Hope

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised

long ages ago,

looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of

our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,

General references

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.