Galatians 3:18 Cross References

Galatians 3:18

18: For if the inheritance could be received only by keeping the law, then it would not be the result of accepting God's promise. But God gave it to Abraham as a promise.

Hebrews 6:12

  1. Then you will not become spiritually dull and indifferent. Instead, you will follow the example of those who are going to inherit God's promises because of their faith and patience.
  2. For example, there was God's promise to Abraham. Since there was no one greater to swear by, God took an oath in his own name, saying:
  3. "I will certainly bless you richly, and I will multiply your descendants into countless millions."
  4. Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.

Luke 1:72

  1. He has been merciful to our ancestors by remembering his sacred covenant with them,
  2. the covenant he gave to our ancestor Abraham.

Micah 7:18

  1. Where is another God like you, who pardons the sins of the survivors among his people? You cannot stay angry with your people forever, because you delight in showing mercy.
  2. Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!
  3. You will show us your faithfulness and unfailing love as you promised with an oath to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob long ago.

Romans 8:17

  1. And since we are his children, we will share his treasures--for everything God gives to his Son, Christ, is ours, too. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

Galatians 2:21

  1. I am not one of those who treats the grace of God as meaningless. For if we could be saved by keeping the law, then there was no need for Christ to die.

Romans 4:13

  1. It is clear, then, that God's promise to give the whole earth to Abraham and his descendants was not based on obedience to God's law, but on the new relationship with God that comes by faith.
  2. So if you claim that God's promise is for those who obey God's law and think they are "good enough" in God's sight, then you are saying that faith is useless. And in that case, the promise is also meaningless.
  3. But the law brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)
  4. So that's why faith is the key! God's promise is given to us as a free gift. And we are certain to receive it, whether or not we follow Jewish customs, if we have faith like Abraham's. For Abraham is the father of all who believe.

Psalms 105:6

  1. O children of Abraham, God's servant, O descendants of Jacob, God's chosen one.
  2. He is the LORD our God. His rule is seen throughout the land.
  3. He always stands by his covenant--the commitment he made to a thousand generations.
  4. This is the covenant he made with Abraham and the oath he swore to Isaac.
  5. He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to the people of Israel as a never-ending treaty:

Galatians 3:10

  1. But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all these commands that are written in God's Book of the Law."

Psalms 105:42

  1. For he remembered his sacred promise to Abraham his servant.

Galatians 3:29

  1. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and now all the promises God gave to him belong to you.

Galatians 3:26

  1. So you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:12

  1. How different from this way of faith is the way of law, which says, "If you wish to find life by obeying the law, you must obey all of its commands."

Luke 1:54

  1. And how he has helped his servant Israel! He has not forgotten his promise to be merciful.
  2. For he promised our ancestors--Abraham and his children--to be merciful to them forever."

Galatians 3:16

  1. God gave the promise to Abraham and his child. And notice that it doesn't say the promise was to his children, as if it meant many descendants. But the promise was to his child--and that, of course, means Christ.
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