Galatians 3:16

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”

Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.” ’

He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

But now they are many members, but one body.

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,

By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

to whom it was said, “Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac,”

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever.”

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring of Abraham.

but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.