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Remember how Abraham put his faith in God, and it was reckoned virtue in him.✻ (Galatians 3, 6)
You must recognize, then, that Abraham’s real children are the children of his faith. (Galatians 3, 7)
There is a passage in scripture which, long beforehand, brings to Abraham the good news, Through thee all the nations shall be blessed; and that passage looks forward to God’s justification of the Gentiles by faith.✻ (Galatians 3, 8)
It is those, then, who take their stand on faith that share the blessing Abraham’s faithfulness won. (Galatians 3, 9)
Thus, in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham was to be imparted to the Gentiles, so that we, through faith, might receive the promised gift of the Spirit. (Galatians 3, 14)
The promises you know of were made to Abraham and his offspring; (it does not, by the way, say, To thy descendants, as if it meant a number of people; it says, To thy offspring, in the singular, meaning Christ).✻ (Galatians 3, 16)
If our inheritance depends on observing the law, then it is not the inheritance secured to us by promise; that was promised to Abraham as a free gift. (Galatians 3, 18)
And if you belong to Christ, then you are indeed Abraham’s children; the promised inheritance is yours. (Galatians 3, 29)
You will find it written there, that Abraham had two sons; one had a slave for his mother, and one a free woman.✻ (Galatians 4, 22)
After all, he does not make himself the angels’ champion, no sign of that; it is the sons of Abraham that he champions.✻ (Hebrews 2, 16)
Such was Abraham. God made him a promise, and then took an oath (an oath by himself, since he had no greater name to swear by), (Hebrews 6, 13)
whereupon Abraham waited patiently, and saw the promise fulfilled. (Hebrews 6, 15)
