Galatians 3:29

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Galatians 3:27–29 · Berean Standard Bible

27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

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Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

1 Corinthians 3:23

and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

1 Corinthians 15:23

But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.

2 Corinthians 10:7

You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does.

Galatians 3:7

Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.

Galatians 3:16

The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

Galatians 3:28

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:22

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

Galatians 4:23

His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

Galatians 4:24

These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

Galatians 4:25

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

Galatians 4:28

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Galatians 4:29

At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

Galatians 4:30

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

Galatians 4:31

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

Genesis 21:10

and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

Genesis 21:11

Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

Genesis 21:12

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

Romans 4:12

And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Romans 4:16

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

Romans 4:17

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Romans 4:18

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

Romans 4:19

Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

Romans 4:20

Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

Romans 4:21

being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.

Romans 9:7

Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

Romans 9:8

So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

Hebrews 11:18

even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

Galatians 4:7

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.

Romans 4:13

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 4:14

For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

Romans 8:17

And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

1 Corinthians 3:22

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

Ephesians 3:6

This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:7

so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

Hebrews 1:14

Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

Hebrews 6:17

So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

Revelation 21:7

The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.