just as (A)Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

Know then that it is (B)those of faith who are (C)the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that (D)God would justify[a] the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, (E)“In you shall all the nations be blessed.” So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:8 Or count righteous; also verses 11, 24

In the same way, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”[a] The real children of Abraham, then, are those who put their faith in God.

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.”[b] So all who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith.

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