in order that the blessing of Abraham may come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.

And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.

For if the inheritance be by law, it is no longer by promise: but God bestowed it on Abraham by promise.

What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added on account of transgressions, (till the offspring should come, to whom the promise was made,) having been appointed through the service of angels, in the hand of a mediator.

But the scripture has shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Christ Jesus may be given to those who believe.

And if you are Christ s, then you are Abraham's posterity, and heirs according to the promise.

But the one by the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; the other, by the free woman, was by promise.

We, indeed, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.