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.”

¹⁸ “For Abraham will certainly become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.

¹⁸ And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed—all because you have obeyed me.”

The Ancestors of Jesus the Messiah

1 This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David and of Abraham^[a]:

²⁵ You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendants^[a] all the families on earth will be blessed.’

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.