Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
In Context
Cross References
Romans 4:16This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham’s posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,
Romans 9:7they are not all children of Abraham because they are Abraham’s descendants. The promise was, In Isaac shall thy posterity be called.
1 Corinthians 15:23But each in his own order; Christ the first-fruits, then those who belong to Christ at his appearing.
Galatians 3:7Notice then that the true sons of Abraham are children of faith.
Galatians 3:28In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 3:20-29
Design of the Law; The True Children of Abraham. ( a. d. 56.) 19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. 22 But the scripture hath concluded… Read the whole commentary →