You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Parallel translations
- WEB For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
- KJV For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
- NKJV For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
- NASB For you are all sons and daughters of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
- NLT For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
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Quick answer
Through faith in Christ Jesus, all believers are sons and daughters of God. This is the heart of the gospel: full family standing comes by faith, not law-keeping.
Overview
Paul concludes his argument that the law was a temporary guardian (3:24-25) by declaring the result of Christ's coming: believers are now full children of God. The phrase 'through faith' underscores that sonship rests on union with Christ, not on works or ethnic descent. This sweeping 'you are all' anticipates verse 28's unity and grounds the believer's identity entirely in Christ rather than in the law.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Eph 1:5He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
- 2 Cor 6:18And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
- John 1:12–13But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
- Gal 4:5–6to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
- 1 Jn 3:1–2Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
- Rom 8:14–17For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
- Phil 2:15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- Rev 21:7The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
- Eph 5:1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
- John 20:17“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
- Heb 2:10–15In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
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Christ became a curse for us to redeem us from the law's curse, that we might receive the Spirit and be sons — justified by faith in him, not by works.
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