Galatians 3:22

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rom 11:32 : 32 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
  • Heb 9:15 : 15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
  • 1 John 2:25 : 25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
  • Gal 3:23 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
  • Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. 10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one. 11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one." 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;" 14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 17 The way of peace, they haven't known." 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. 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.
  • Rom 3:23 : 23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
  • Rom 4:11-16 : 11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them. 12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision. 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 5:12 : 12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; 21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 10:9 : 9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
  • Gal 3:8-9 : 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."
  • Gal 3:14 : 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.
  • Gal 3:17 : 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.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
  • John 3:15-18 : 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
  • John 3:36 : 36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
  • John 5:24 : 24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
  • John 6:40 : 40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. 26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
  • John 12:46 : 46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
  • John 20:31 : 31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
  • Acts 16:31 : 31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."
  • Gal 3:29 : 29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
  • 2 Tim 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
  • Heb 6:13-17 : 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. 16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 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;
  • 1 John 3:23-24 : 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded. 24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
  • 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
  • 2 Pet 3:13 : 13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

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    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.

    25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

    26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Gal 3:21
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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.

  • Gal 3:6-15
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    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."

    13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

    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.

  • Rom 3:19-24
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    19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

    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.

    21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

    22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

    23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

    24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

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    9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • Rom 11:32
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    32 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

  • Gal 2:16-17
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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.

    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • Rom 3:26-28
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    26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

    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.

  • Gal 3:17-19
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    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.

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

    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.

  • Acts 13:39
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    39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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    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 10:4
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    4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

  • Rom 3:30
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    30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

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

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    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

    3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

  • Rom 9:30
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    30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

  • Rom 4:13-14
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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.

  • Rom 1:2
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    2 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

  • Gal 5:4
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    4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • Gal 2:19
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    19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

  • Rom 2:12
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    12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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    5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

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

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    17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."