Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are indeed true descendants of Abraham, and are heirs in fulfilment of the promise.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 4:16All depends on faith, and for this reason--that acceptance with God might be an act of pure grace,
Romans 9:7nor because they are Abraham's true children. But the promise was "Through Isaac shall your posterity be reckoned."
1 Corinthians 15:23But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.
Galatians 3:7Notice therefore that those who possess faith are true sons of Abraham.
Galatians 3:28In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; 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 →