Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness."

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, [saying] that, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.

And I will bless those that bless you, and curse those that curse you, and in you shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

But you, O Israel, are My servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, whom I have loved;

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for he was alone when I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.

And now I will comfort you, O Zion; and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exaltation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.

For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

But to him who does not work but believes on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

"Blessed [are] [they] whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins were covered over;

Does this blessing then come upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had while] in uncircumcision, so that he should be the father of all those that believe, although uncircumcised, so that righteousness should also be imputed to them,

For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through [the] law, but through [the] righteousness of faith.

because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law neither is there transgression.

(just as it is written, "I have appointed you a father of many nations") before God, whom he believed, the [One] who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as though they were;

Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises spoken. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ.

And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.

And He said to me, [It is] a great thing for you to be called My servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel; behold, I have given you for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the end of the earth.

And the Lord shall reveal His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation that [comes] from our God.

Then the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

"For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."

You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'

To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."

Nor is there salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven which has been given among men by which we must be saved."

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and you believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

For "whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved."

And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, of those preaching the gospel of good things!"

who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

who gave Himself a ransom for all, the testimony in due time;

This only do I wish to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?--

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"

until the Spirit shall come upon you from on high, and Carmel shall be desert, and Carmel shall be counted for a forest.

For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land; I will put My Spirit upon your seed, and My blessings upon your children;

and they shall spring up as grass between brooks, and as willows on [the banks of] running water.

So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and they [that come] from the rising of the sun [shall fear] His glorious name; for the wrath of the Lord shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.

And this shall be My covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and forever!

For this is My covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put My laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts. And I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.

And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put My fear into their heart, that they may not depart from Me.

And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh;

And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.

And I will put My Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in My ordinances, and to keep My judgments, and do [them].

And I will no more turn away My face from them, because I have poured out My wrath upon the house of Israel, says the Lord God.

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

And on My servants and on My handmaids in those days will I pour out of My Spirit.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon Me, because they have mocked Me, and they shall make lamentation for Him, as for a beloved [friend], and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

If you then, being evil, know [how] to give good gifts to your children, by how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

And behold, I am sending the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high."

(But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him were about to receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to withdraw from Jerusalem, but to await for the Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me;

for John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

"Therefore having being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

And we are His witnesses of these words, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him."

And those of the circumcision who believed were astounded, as many as had come with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.

Surely no one can forbid water, can he, that these should not be baptized who received the Holy Spirit just as we have?"

"And when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as also on us in the beginning.

And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, 'John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit indwelling in you.

For if you live according to the flesh you shall die; but if by [the] Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

But He that searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes on behalf of the saints according to [the will] [of] God.

For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and we were all given to drink into one Spirit.

who also has sealed us, and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

Because through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

in whom you also are being built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power by His Spirit in the inner man,

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,

These are those who cause divisions, wordly, not having [the] Spirit.

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,