...neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. The third oracle (v. 8) sums up the new teaching. The new Israel, gathered from the ends of the earth,...

...the Church is the new Israel, the successor of the people of the Old Covenant; in St Paul's words, "If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" (Gal 3:29). For, if we have Abraham as our father, we form "the Israel of God" (Gal 6:16), the Christian...

...neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" (Gal. 3:26-29). Joining this new polls overturned all older politics. What was Cornelius supposed to do after...

...united to Christ are heirs of the Abrahamic promise. Accordingly, Paul tells the Galatian believers: "If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" (Gal. 3:29). God, then, guaranteed his trustworthiness through two unchangeable things,90 namely, his word...

...neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise" (Gal. 3:28-29). Paul's acceptance of the practice that those who had been Jews could continue...

...neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise. (Gal. 3:26-29, au. trans.) Through baptism Christians "put on" Christ, like a robe, and...

...consideration. But now, in Christ, the Gentiles are fellow heirs! As Paul wrote to the Galatian Gentiles, "If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" (Gal 3:29). members together of one body, The second term becomes an entire phrase in English, "members...

...That this path then turns and leads from Christ back to Abraham is Paul's conclusion in Gal. 3:29, for "if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise." 12 COMMENTARY 12:1-3 It is said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The...

...Jesus' (Gal. 3 . 28). The way the passage continues shows the hope in which the church lives: 'And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise' - that is to say, heirs of the kingdom. This community is the present form of the messianic...

...and of the indwelling Holy Spirit (v. 14). Paul sums it up in the last verse of the chapter (v. 29): "If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise." 4. How do the New Testament writers interpret and apply the three elements of the Abrahamic Covenant?...