Galatians 3:8

New Century Version

The Scriptures, telling what would happen in the future, said that God would make the non-Jewish people right through their faith. This Good News was told to Abraham beforehand, as the Scripture says: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:3

I will bless those who bless you, and I will place a curse on those who harm you. And all the people on earth will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 18:18

Abraham’s children will certainly become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.

Genesis 22:18

Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed, because you obeyed me.’ ”

Genesis 26:4

I will give you many descendants, as hard to count as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

Genesis 49:10

Kings will come from Judah’s family; someone from Judah will always be on the throne. Judah will rule until Shiloh comes, and the nations will obey him.

Psalm 72:7

Let goodness be plentiful while he lives. Let peace continue as long as there is a moon.

Isaiah 6:13

One-tenth of the people will be left in the land, but it will be destroyed again. These people will be like an oak tree whose stump is left when the tree is chopped down. The people who remain will be like a stump that will sprout again.”

Isaiah 65:9

I will leave some of the children of Jacob, and some of the people of Judah will receive my mountain. I will choose the people who will live there; my servants will live there.

Jeremiah 4:2

If you say when you make a promise, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ and you can say it in a truthful, honest, and right way, then the nations will be blessed by him, and they will praise him for what he has done.”

John 19:37

And another Scripture says, “They will look at the one they stabbed.”

John 7:38

If anyone believes in me, rivers of living water will flow out from that person’s heart, as the Scripture says.”

John 7:42

The Scripture says that the Christ will come from David’s family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived.”

Acts 2:35

until I put your enemies under your control.” ’

Romans 9:17

The Scripture says to the king of Egypt: “I made you king for this reason: to show my power in you so that my name will be talked about in all the earth.”

Romans 9:30

So what does all this mean? Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith.

Galatians 3:16

God made promises both to Abraham and to his descendant. God did not say, “and to your descendants.” That would mean many people. But God said, “and to your descendant.” That means only one person; that person is Christ.

Galatians 3:22

Instead, the Scriptures showed that the whole world is bound by sin. This was so the promise would be given through faith to people who believe in Jesus Christ.

Galatians 4:30

But what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the slave woman and her son. The son of the slave woman should not inherit anything. The son of the free woman should receive it all.”

Hebrews 4:2

The Good News was preached to us just as it was to them. But the teaching they heard did not help them, because they heard it but did not accept it with faith.

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet. And there were loud voices in heaven, saying: “The power to rule the world now belongs to our Lord and his Christ, and he will rule forever and ever.”