Galatians 3:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for if by law `be' the inheritance, `it is' no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant `it'.

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  • Ps 105:6-9 : 6 O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones. 7 He `is' Jehovah our God, In all the earth `are' His judgments. 8 He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations, 9 That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac, 10 And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during, 11 Saying, `To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,' 12 In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.
  • Ps 105:42 : 42 For He hath remembered His holy word, With Abraham His servant,
  • Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who `is' a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He -- He delighteth `in' kindness. 19 He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins. 20 Thou givest truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, That thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of antiquity!
  • Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness, 55 As He spake unto our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed -- to the age.'
  • Luke 1:72-73 : 72 To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant, 73 An oath that He sware to Abraham our father,
  • Rom 4:13-16 : 13 For not through law `is' the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith; 14 for if they who are of law `are' heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless; 15 for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither `is' transgression. 16 Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,
  • Rom 8:17 : 17 and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness `be' through law -- then Christ died in vain.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed `is' every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'
  • Gal 3:12 : 12 and the law is not by faith, but -- `The man who did them shall live in them.'
  • Gal 3:16 : 16 and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;
  • Gal 3:29 : 29 and if ye `are' of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.
  • Heb 6:12-15 : 12 that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises. 13 For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself, 14 saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;' 15 and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;
  • Gal 3:26 : 26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

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  • Gal 3:14-17
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    14that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

    15Brethren, as a man I say `it', even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

    16and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

    17and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

  • Gal 3:21-24
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    21the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

    22but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

    23And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

    24so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

  • Rom 4:13-16
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    13For not through law `is' the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

    14for if they who are of law `are' heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;

    15for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither `is' transgression.

    16Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,

  • Gal 3:19
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    19Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --

  • Gal 3:29
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    29and if ye `are' of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.

  • Gal 3:5-12
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    5He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith `is it'?

    6according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;

    7know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,

    8and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --

    9`Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,

    10for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed `is' every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'

    11and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'

    12and the law is not by faith, but -- `The man who did them shall live in them.'

  • Heb 6:13
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    13For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

  • Rom 4:1-3
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    1What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

    2for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast -- but not before god;

    3for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where then `is' the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:

    28therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

    18of whom it was said -- `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

  • Gal 4:22-23
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    22for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

    23but he who `is' of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who `is' of the free-woman, through the promise;

  • Acts 7:5
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    5and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him -- he having no child.

  • Gen 15:3
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    3And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'

  • 1 Chr 16:17-18
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    17And He establisheth it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during.

    18Saying: To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,

  • Rom 3:31
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    31Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed,

  • Rom 9:8-9
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    8that is, the children of the flesh -- these `are' not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

    9for the word of promise `is' this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

  • Gal 3:2
    69%

    2this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?

  • Gal 4:28
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    28And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

  • Heb 6:17
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    17in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

  • Gen 28:4
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    4and He doth give to thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, to cause thee to possess the land of thy sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.'

  • Rom 3:20
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    20wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

  • Acts 3:25
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    25`Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth;

  • Gen 17:9
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    9And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

  • Gal 2:16
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    16having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

  • Gen 18:18
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    18and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

  • Gen 26:5
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    5because that Abraham hath hearkened to My voice, and keepeth My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.'