Galatians 4:30

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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

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.”

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

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

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.

Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

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.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

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.’

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

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

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

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.

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

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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.”

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

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

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.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them;

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.

Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock.”

I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there.

and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.

Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” ’

“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

“All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

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

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

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

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,