Galatians 3:8

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Gen 12:3 : 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."
  • Heb 4:2 : 2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
  • Rev 11:15 : 15 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!"
  • Gen 22:18 : 18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
  • Gen 49:10 : 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
  • Ps 72:7 : 7 In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
  • Isa 6:13 : 13 If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled; so the holy seed is its stock."
  • Isa 65:9 : 9 I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
  • John 7:38 : 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
  • Gen 26:4 : 4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • Gen 18:18 : 18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
  • Acts 2:25-26 : 25 For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. 26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;
  • Acts 2:35 : 35 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."'
  • Acts 15:15-18 : 15 This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written, 16 'After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up, 17 That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things. 18 All his works are known to God from eternity.'
  • Rom 3:28-30 : 28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
  • Rom 9:17 : 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
  • Rom 9:30 : 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;
  • 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 3:22 : 22 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  • 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. 16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
  • Gal 4:30 : 30 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."
  • John 7:42 : 42 Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
  • John 19:37 : 37 Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."

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  • Gal 3:9
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    9So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  • Gal 3:6-7
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    6Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

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

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

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

  • Acts 3:25-26
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    25You 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.'

    26God, having raised up his servant, Jesus, sent him to you first, to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your wickedness."

  • Rom 4:16-18
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    16For 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.

    17As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

    18Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

  • Gen 22:18
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    18In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

  • Rom 4:9-13
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    9Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

    10How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    11He 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.

    12He 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.

    13For 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.

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

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

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

  • Gen 12:2-3
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    2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

    3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

  • Heb 11:18
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    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

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

  • Gen 28:4
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    4and 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."

  • Gal 3:16
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    16Now 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 3:18
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    18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

  • Jas 2:23
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    23and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

  • Rom 9:7-9
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    7Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

    8That 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.

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

  • Gal 3:22-23
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    22But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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

  • Rom 3:29-30
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    29Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

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

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

  • Gen 28:14
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    14Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

  • Gen 26:3-4
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    3Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

    4I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

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

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

  • Gen 15:6
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    6He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Rom 3:22
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    22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

  • Gal 3:26
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    26For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Heb 6:14
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    14saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."

  • Gen 17:4
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    4"As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

  • Gal 3:11
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    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

  • Rom 4:6
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    6Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

  • Eph 3:6
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    6that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."