the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Galatians 3:18
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For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.
For if the inheritance is by law, it is no longer by promise, but God has granted it to Abraham through promise.
Think about this, can following a set of rules bless us? If it could, then we wouldn't need God's promise, just good rule-following ability. But God blessed Abraham because of his faith, not because he followed rules. We have the same promise made to us.
Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.
For if the inheritance [be] on the principle of law, [it is] no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in grace to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance be by the law, it is no more by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance comes through obedience to Law, it no longer comes because of a promise. But, as a matter of fact, God has granted it to Abraham in fulfilment of a promise.
For if the inheritance bee of the Law, it is no more of promise: but God gaue it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance is of Law, it is no more of promise; but God has given it to Abraham through promise.
For yf the enheritaunce be gotten by the lawe, then is it not geuen by promes. But God gaue it frely vnto Abraham by promes.
now if the right to the inheritance be from the law, it is no longer founded upon the promise; altho' God made a donation of it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance [of what was promised] is based on [observing] the Law [as these false teachers claim], it is no longer based on a promise; however, God granted it to Abraham [as a gift] by virtue of His promise.
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.
For yf the inheritaunce come of the lawe it cometh not of promes. But God gave it vnto Abraham by promes.
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance [is] by the law, [it is] no more by promise: but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise.
for if by law [be] the inheritance, [it is] no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant [it].
If the law could give us Abraham's blessing, then the promise would not be necessary. But that is not possible, because God freely gave his blessings to Abraham through the promise he had made.
For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.
For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.
If we have to obey the Law in order to receive God's blessings, those blessings don't really come to us because of God's promise. But God was kind to Abraham and made him a promise.
For if the inheritance comes from the legal part of the Torah, it no longer comes from a promise. But God gave it to Avraham through a promise.
For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
For if the inheritance be of the Lawe, it is no more by the promise, but God gaue it freely vnto Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance is by the law, then it would not be as the fulfillment of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Avraham by promise.
For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by the promise. But it was by a promise that God so graciously gave it to Abraham.Romans 4:14; 8:17;">[xr]
But if the inheritance was by the law, it could not have been by the promise; but Aloha gave it unto Abraham by promise.
And if the inheritance were by the law, it would not be by promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance could be received by keeping the law, then it would not be the result of accepting God's promise. But God graciously gave it to Abraham as a promise.
If it had been possible to be saved from the punishment of sin by obeying the Law, the promise God gave Abraham would be worth nothing. But since it is not possible to be saved by obeying the Law, the promise God gave Abraham is worth everything.
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance comes from the law, it no longer comes from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.
For, if, by law, is the inheritance, it is, no longer, by promise; but, unto Abraham, through promise, hath God favoured it.
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.
For yf the inheritauce be of the lawe, then not nowe of promise: But God gaue it vnto Abraham by promise.
Can following the law give us the blessing God promised? If we could receive it by following the law, then it would not be God's promise that brings it to us. But God freely gave his blessings to Abraham through the promise God made.
For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.
For if God's gift depends on the Law, then it no longer depends on his promise. However, it was because of his promise that God gave that gift to Abraham.
For if eritage were of the lawe, it were not now of biheeste. But God grauntide to Abraham thoruy biheest.
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Bible Verse Review
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if: Galatians 3:10, Galatians 3:12, Galatians 3:26, Galatians 3:29, Galatians 2:21, Romans 4:13-16, Romans 8:17
but: Galatians 3:16, Psalms 105:6-12, Psalms 105:42, Micah 7:18-20, Luke 1:54, Luke 1:55, Luke 1:72, Luke 1:73, Hebrews 6:12-15
Reciprocal: Genesis 17:2 - And I Genesis 21:10 - heir Genesis 22:18 - And in Luke 10:25 - to Acts 26:6 - the promise Romans 4:14 - For if Ephesians 1:11 - we 1 Peter 1:4 - an
Cross-References
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."
know assuredly that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you; but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, till you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!"
who coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who hast stretched out the heavens like a tent,
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep far from them.
and lo, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For if the inheritance be of the law,.... By the inheritance is meant, either the eternal inheritance, everlasting life and happiness in heaven, which is the gift of God through Christ, and not attained to and enforced by the works of the law; or particularly the blessing of justification, promised in the covenant to Abraham, and his spiritual seed; even to the Gentiles, and inherited by them; which is not obtained through obedience to the law of works, nor does it belong to those who seek for it by the deeds of the law, for these are not heirs of it; see Romans 4:14. For was this the case,
it is no more of promise; it cannot be by merit and by promise, by works and grace too; these can never be reconciled, and consist together; if it is by promise, then not of the law; and if it is of the law, it is not by promise: "but" nothing is more certain than this, that
God gave it, freely, without any consideration of the works of the law,
to Abraham by promise; wherefore justification is not by works, but by the free grace of God, through faith in the righteousness of Christ; and in this way men become heirs according to the hope of eternal life: all which is directly opposite to the notion of the Jews, who say, that, בשכר מצות ירשו גן עדן,
"for the reward of the commandments, men shall inherit paradise k.''
k Tzeror Hammor, fol. 152. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For if the inheritance - The inheritance promised to Abraham. The sum of the promise was, that “he should be the heir of the world;” see Romans 4:13, and the note at that verse. To that heirship or inheritance Paul refers here, and says that it was an essential part of it that it was to be in virtue of the promise made to him, and not by fulfilling the Law.
Be of the law - If it is by observing the Law of Moses; or if it come in any way by the fulfilling of law. This is plain. Yet the Jews contended that the blessings of justification and salvation were to be in virtue of the observance of the Law of Moses. But if so, says Paul, then it could not be by the promise made to Abraham, since there could not be two ways of obtaining the same blessing.
But God gave it to Abraham by promise - That, says Paul, is a settled point. It is perfectly clear; and that is to be held as an indisputable fact, that the blessing was given to Abraham by a promise. That promise was confirmed and ratified hundreds of years before the Law was given, and the giving of the Law could not affect it. But that promise was, that he would be the ancestor of the Messiah, and that in him all the nations of the earth should be blessed. Of course, if they were to be blessed in this way, then it was not to be by the observance of the Law, and the Law must have been given for a different purpose. What that was, he states in the following verses.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 18. For if the inheritance be of the law — See the preceding arguments, in which this is proved.
