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Just as (A)Abraham (B)believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness, so know that (C)those who are of faith, those are (D)sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God [a]would justify the [b]Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “(E)All the nations will be blessed in you.” So then (F)those who are of faith are blessed with [c]Abraham, the believer.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:8 Lit justifies
  2. Galatians 3:8 Lit nations
  3. Galatians 3:9 Lit the believing Abraham

Abraham: an example of righteousness

Understand that in the same way that Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness,[a] those who believe are the children of Abraham. But when it saw ahead of time that God would make the Gentiles righteous on the basis of faith, scripture preached the gospel in advance to Abraham: All the Gentiles will be blessed in you.[b] Therefore, those who believe are blessed together with Abraham who believed.

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