Galatians 3:18

World English Bible (2000)

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

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  • Ps 105:6-9 : 6 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 7 He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth. 8 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, 9 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac, 10 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant, 11 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;" 12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
  • Ps 105:42 : 42 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
  • Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. 19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 20 You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
  • Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy, 55 As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his seed forever."
  • Luke 1:72-73 : 72 to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant, 73 the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,
  • Rom 4:13-16 : 13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. 15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience. 16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
  • Rom 8:17 : 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
  • Gal 3:12 : 12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
  • Gal 3:16 : 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.
  • Gal 3:29 : 29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
  • Heb 6:12-15 : 12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises. 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, 14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." 15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • Gal 3:26 : 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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  • Gal 3:14-17
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    14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

    15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

    16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

    17 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

  • Gal 3:21-24
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    21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

    22 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

    23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

    24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

  • Rom 4:13-16
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    13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

    14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

    15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

    16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

  • Gal 3:19
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    19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

  • Gal 3:5-12
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    5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

    6 Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

    7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

    8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

    9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

    10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

    11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

    12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

  • Heb 6:13
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    13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

  • Rom 4:1-3
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    1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

    2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

    3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

    28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

    18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Gal 4:22-23
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    22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

    23 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

  • Acts 7:5
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    5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

  • Gen 15:3
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    3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

  • 1 Chr 16:17-18
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    17 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

    18 saying, "I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance,"

  • Rom 3:31
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    31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

  • Rom 9:8-9
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    8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

    9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

  • Gal 3:2
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    2 I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

  • Gal 4:28
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    28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

  • Gen 28:4
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    4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."

  • Rom 3:20
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    20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Acts 3:25
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    25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'

  • Gen 17:9
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    9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

  • Gal 2:16
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    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

  • Gen 18:18
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    18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

  • Gen 26:5
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    5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."