Galatians 3:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.

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  • Gen 12:3 : 3 To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
  • Heb 4:2 : 2 And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.
  • Rev 11:15 : 15 And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.
  • Gen 22:18 : 18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
  • Gen 49:10 : 10 The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.
  • Ps 72:7 : 7 In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.
  • Isa 6:13 : 13 And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).
  • Isa 65:9 : 9 And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.
  • John 7:38 : 38 He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.
  • Gen 26:4 : 4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
  • Gen 18:18 : 18 Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?
  • Acts 2:25-26 : 25 For David said of him, I saw the Lord before my face at all times, for he is at my right hand, so that I may not be moved: 26 And for this cause my heart was glad and my tongue full of joy, and my flesh will be resting in hope:
  • Acts 2:35 : 35 Till I put all those who are against you under your feet.
  • Acts 15:15-18 : 15 And this is in agreement with the words of the prophets, as it is said, 16 After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete: 17 So that the rest of men may make search for the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom my name is named, 18 Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.
  • Rom 3:28-30 : 28 For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles: 30 If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.
  • Rom 9:17 : 17 For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.
  • Rom 9:30 : 30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:
  • Gal 3:16 : 16 Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 However, the holy Writings have put all things under sin, so that that for which God gave the undertaking, based on faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who have such faith.
  • 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: 17 So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
  • Gal 4:30 : 30 What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.
  • John 7:42 : 42 Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?
  • John 19:37 : 37 And again another verse says, They will see him who was wounded by their spears.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 3:9
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    9So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.

  • Gal 3:6-7
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    6Even as Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

    7Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

  • Gal 3:14
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    14So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.

  • Gen 18:18
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    18Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

  • Acts 3:25-26
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    25You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

    26To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.

  • Rom 4:16-18
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    16For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

    17(As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.

    18Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

  • Gen 22:18
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    18And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

  • Rom 4:9-13
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    9Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

    10How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:

    11And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

    12And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

    13For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

  • Rom 4:1-3
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    1What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?

    2For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God.

    3But what does it say in the holy Writings? And Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

  • Gen 12:2-3
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    2And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

    3To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

  • Gal 3:29
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    29And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

  • Gen 28:4
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    4And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.

  • Gal 3:16
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    16Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

  • Gal 3:18
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    18Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.

  • Jas 2:23
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    23And the holy Writings were put into effect which said, And Abraham had faith in God and it was put to his account as righteousness; and he was named the friend of God.

  • Rom 9:7-9
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    7And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

    8That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

    9For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

  • Gal 3:22-23
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    22However, the holy Writings have put all things under sin, so that that for which God gave the undertaking, based on faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who have such faith.

    23But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.

  • Rom 3:29-30
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    29Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

    30If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

  • Rom 9:30
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    30What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

  • Gen 28:14
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    14Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

  • Gen 26:3-4
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    3Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

    4I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

  • Gen 17:9
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    9And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking.

  • Gen 15:6
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    6And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

  • Rom 3:22
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    22That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

  • Gal 3:26
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    26Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Heb 6:14
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    14Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great.

  • Gen 17:4
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    4As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

  • Gal 3:11
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    11Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.

  • Rom 4:6
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    6As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,

  • Eph 3:6
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    6Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.