Galatians 3:29 Cross References

Galatians 3:29

29: 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.

Ephesians 3:6

  1. And this is the secret plan: The Gentiles have an equal share with the Jews in all the riches inherited by God's children. Both groups have believed the Good News, and both are part of the same body and enjoy together the promise of blessings through Christ Jesus.

Romans 9:7

  1. Just the fact that they are descendants of Abraham doesn't make them truly Abraham's children. For the Scriptures say, "Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted," though Abraham had other children, too.
  2. This means that Abraham's physical descendants are not necessarily children of God. It is the children of the promise who are considered to be Abraham's children.

Galatians 4:22

  1. The Scriptures say that Abraham had two sons, one from his slave-wife and one from his freeborn wife.
  2. The son of the slave-wife was born in a human attempt to bring about the fulfillment of God's promise. But the son of the freeborn wife was born as God's own fulfillment of his promise.
  3. Now these two women serve as an illustration of God's two covenants. Hagar, the slave-wife, represents Mount Sinai where people first became enslaved to the law.
  4. And now Jerusalem is just like Mount Sinai in Arabia, because she and her children live in slavery.
  5. But Sarah, the free woman, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. And she is our mother.

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.

Romans 4:16

  1. 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.
  2. That is what the Scriptures mean when God told him, "I have made you the father of many nations." This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who brings into existence what didn't exist before.
  3. When God promised Abraham that he would become the father of many nations, Abraham believed him. God had also said, "Your descendants will be as numerous as the stars," even though such a promise seemed utterly impossible!
  4. And Abraham's faith did not weaken, even though he knew that he was too old to be a father at the age of one hundred and that Sarah, his wife, had never been able to have children.
  5. Abraham never wavered in believing God's promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God.

Titus 3:7

  1. He declared us not guilty because of his great kindness. And now we know that we will inherit eternal life.

James 2:5

  1. Listen to me, dear brothers and sisters. Hasn't God chosen the poor in this world to be rich in faith? Aren't they the ones who will inherit the Kingdom he promised to those who love him?

Galatians 4:7

  1. Now you are no longer a slave but God's own child. And since you are his child, everything he has belongs to you.

1 Corinthians 3:22

  1. Paul and Apollos and Peter; the whole world and life and death; the present and the future. Everything belongs to you,
  2. and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Revelation 21:7

  1. All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.

Galatians 3:7

  1. The real children of Abraham, then, are all those who put their faith in God.

Romans 4:12

  1. And Abraham is also the spiritual father of those who have been circumcised, but only if they have the same kind of faith Abraham had before he was circumcised.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

2 Corinthians 10:7

  1. The trouble with you is that you make your decisions on the basis of appearance. You must recognize that we belong to Christ just as much as those who proudly declare that they belong to Christ.

Galatians 3:28

  1. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. For you are all Christians--you are one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 15:23

  1. But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised first; then when Christ comes back, all his people will be raised.

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.

Hebrews 11:7

  1. It was by faith that Noah built an ark to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about something that had never happened before. By his faith he condemned the rest of the world and was made right in God's sight.

Hebrews 11:18

  1. though God had promised him, "Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted."

Hebrews 6:17

  1. God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.

Galatians 5:24

  1. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

Hebrews 1:14

  1. But angels are only servants. They are spirits sent from God to care for those who will receive salvation.

Genesis 21:10

  1. So she turned to Abraham and demanded, "Get rid of that servant and her son. He is not going to share the family inheritance with my son, Isaac. I won't have it!"
  2. This upset Abraham very much because Ishmael was his son.
  3. But God told Abraham, "Do not be upset over the boy and your servant wife. Do just as Sarah says, for Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.
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