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Why, it is as with Abraham, he had faith in God and that was counted to him as righteousness. Well then, you see that the real sons of Abraham are those who rely on faith. Besides, Scripture anticipated God's justification of the Gentiles by faith when it announced the gospel beforehand to Abraham in these terms: All nations shall be blessed in thee.












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For the unbelieving husband is consecrated in the person of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated in the person of the Christian brother she has married; otherwise, of course, your children would be unholy instead of being consecrated to God. Verse ConceptsBaptism, practice ofMarriage, Purpose OfEncouraging Faith In ChristNot Believing The GospelPeople Being UncleanChildren BlessedFamily SolidarityBaptizing InfantsHusband And WifeMarriage Between Man And WomanWifeLove MarriageSanctificationA Good HusbandLeaving Parents For Spousespousecouplesbeliefmatrimonyreality






For as men swear by a greater than themselves, and as an oath means to them a guarantee that ends any dispute, God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath;

of the oath he swore to Abraham our father, Verse ConceptsAbraham, New Testament ReferencesGod Swearing Blessings


God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath; so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us,





For in making a promise to Abraham God swore by himself (since he could swear by none greater), Verse ConceptsGod HimselfSwearing











they are not all children of Abraham because they are descended from Abraham. No, it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned ??8 meaning that instead of God's children being the children born to him by natural descent, it is the children of the Promise who are reckoned as his true offspring. Verse ConceptsConcubinesChildren Of AbrahamDescendants ofSeeds










Why, it is as with Abraham, he had faith in God and that was counted to him as righteousness. Well then, you see that the real sons of Abraham are those who rely on faith. Besides, Scripture anticipated God's justification of the Gentiles by faith when it announced the gospel beforehand to Abraham in these terms: All nations shall be blessed in thee.