just like Abraham who believed God,(A) and it was credited to him for righteousness?[a](B)

You know, then, that those who have faith, these are Abraham’s sons.(C) Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel ahead of time to Abraham,(D) saying, All the nations[b] will be blessed through you.[c](E) Consequently, those who have faith are blessed with Abraham,(F) who had faith.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:6 Gn 15:6
  2. 3:8 Or Gentiles
  3. 3:8 Gn 12:3; 18:18
  4. 3:9 Or with believing Abraham

Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,”(A) so, you see, those who believe are the descendants of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would reckon as righteous the gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the gentiles shall be blessed in you.”(B) For this reason, those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed.

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