Bible Cross References
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Romans 4:11-16
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He was circumcised later, and his circumcision was a sign to show that because of his faith God had accepted him as righteous before he had been circumcised. And so Abraham is the spiritual father of all who believe in God and are accepted as righteous by him, even though they are not circumcised.
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He is also the father of those who are circumcised, that is, of those who, in addition to being circumcised, also live the same life of faith that our father Abraham lived before he was circumcised.
13
When God promised Abraham and his descendants that the world would belong to him, he did so, not because Abraham obeyed the Law, but because he believed and was accepted as righteous by God.
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For if what God promises is to be given to those who obey the Law, then faith means nothing and God's promise is worthless.
15
The Law brings down God's anger; but where there is no law, there is no disobeying of the law.
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And so the promise was based on faith, in order that the promise should be guaranteed as God's free gift to all of Abraham's descendants---not just to those who obey the Law, but also to those who believe as Abraham did. For Abraham is the spiritual father of us all;
Galatians 4:22-31
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It says that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman, the other by a free woman.
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His son by the slave woman was born in the usual way, but his son by the free woman was born as a result of God's promise.
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These things can be understood as a figure: the two women represent two covenants. The one whose children are born in slavery is Hagar, and she represents the covenant made at Mount Sinai.
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Hagar, who stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, is a figure of the present city of Jerusalem, in slavery with all its people.
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But the heavenly Jerusalem is free, and she is our mother.
27
For the scripture says, "Be happy, you childless woman! Shout and cry with joy, you who never felt the pains of childbirth! For the woman who was deserted will have more children than the woman whose husband never left her."
28
Now, you, my friends, are God's children as a result of his promise, just as Isaac was.
29
At that time the son who was born in the usual way persecuted the one who was born because of God's Spirit; and it is the same now.
30
But what does the scripture say? It says, "Send the slave woman and her son away; for the son of the slave woman will not have a part of the father's property along with the son of the free woman."
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So then, my friends, we are not the children of a slave woman but of a free woman.
are counted
Genesis 31:15
He treats us like foreigners. He sold us, and now he has spent all the money he was paid for us.
Psalm 22:30
Future generations will serve him; they will speak of the Lord to the coming generation.
Psalm 87:6
The LORD will write a list of the peoples and include them all as citizens of Jerusalem.
John 1:13
They did not become God's children by natural means, that is, by being born as the children of a human father; God himself was their Father.
Galatians 3:26-29
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It is through faith that all of you are God's children in union with Christ Jesus.
27
You were baptized into union with Christ, and now you are clothed, so to speak, with the life of Christ himself.
28
So there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and free people, between men and women; you are all one in union with Christ Jesus.
29
If you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham and will receive what God has promised.
Galatians 4:28
Now, you, my friends, are God's children as a result of his promise, just as Isaac was.
1 John 3:1
See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children---and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God.
1 John 3:2
My dear friends, we are now God's children, but it is not yet clear what we shall become. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.