Galatians 3:8

Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, announcing the gospel beforehand to Abraham. The promise to bless all nations was gospel in advance.

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• Gen 12:3I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
• Gen 22:18And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
• Gen 28:14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
• Gen 18:18Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
• Gen 26:4I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
• Heb 4:2For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.
• Rom 3:28–30For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
• Gal 3:22But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.
• Gal 3:16The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.
• Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
• John 7:38Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
• Acts 15:15–18The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:
• 2 Tim 3:15–17From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Rom 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
• Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
• Rom 9:30What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
• Isa 65:9And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and heirs from Judah; My elect will possess My mountains, and My servants will dwell there.
• John 7:42Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
• Acts 2:35until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’
• Isa 6:13And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
• Ps 72:7May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound, until the moon is no more.
• Gal 4:30But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
• Acts 2:25–26David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
• John 19:37And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”

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