Galatians 3:22

Scripture confined everything under sin so that the promise might be given to those who believe in Jesus Christ. Sin's universality drives sinners to faith in Christ.

Cross-references · 30

• Rom 11:32For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.
• Heb 9:15Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
• Gal 3:23Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
• John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
• 1 Jn 3:23–24And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
• Rom 3:9–20What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• Ps 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
• John 12:46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.
• John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
• John 20:31But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
• Mark 16:16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
• Rom 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
• 2 Pet 1:4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
• Gal 3:29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
• 2 Tim 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,
• Rom 3:23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
• 2 Pet 3:13But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
• Acts 16:31They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
• John 6:40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• 1 Jn 5:11–13And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
• Gal 3:8–10The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
• Rom 4:11–16And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
• Gal 3:17What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
• Heb 6:13–17When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
• Gal 3:14He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
• Rom 10:9that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
• John 3:15–18that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

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