Galatians 3:8
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8 What’s more, the Scriptures looked forward to this time when God would make the Gentiles right in his sight because of their faith. God proclaimed this good news to Abraham long ago when he said, “All nations will be blessed through you.”[a]
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Genesis 12:3
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3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.”
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Genesis 22:18
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18 And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed—all because you have obeyed me.”
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Genesis 28:14
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14 Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.
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Genesis 26:4
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4 I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars of the sky, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
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Genesis 18:18
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18 “For Abraham will certainly become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
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Romans 3:28-30
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28 So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.
29 After all, is God the God of the Jews only? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles? Of course he is. 30 There is only one God, and he makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.[a]
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- 3:30 Greek whether they are circumcised or uncircumcised.
Galatians 3:22
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22 But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ.
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Hebrews 4:2
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2 For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God.[a]
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- 4:2 Some manuscripts read they didn’t combine what they heard with faith.
Galatians 3:16
New Living Translation
16 God gave the promises to Abraham and his child.[a] And notice that the Scripture doesn’t say “to his children,[b]” as if it meant many descendants. Rather, it says “to his child”—and that, of course, means Christ.
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Acts 15:15-18
New Living Translation
15 And this conversion of Gentiles is exactly what the prophets predicted. As it is written:
16 ‘Afterward I will return
and restore the fallen house[a] of David.
I will rebuild its ruins
and restore it,
17 so that the rest of humanity might seek the Lord,
including the Gentiles—
all those I have called to be mine.
The Lord has spoken—
18 he who made these things known so long ago.’[b]
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- 15:16 Or kingdom; Greek reads tent.
- 15:16-18 Amos 9:11-12 (Greek version); Isa 45:21.
John 7:38
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38 Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”[a]
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- 7:37-38 Or “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from the heart of anyone who believes in me.’”
Genesis 49:10
New Living Translation
10 The scepter will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from his descendants,[a]
until the coming of the one to whom it belongs,[b]
the one whom all nations will honor.
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