Hebrews 2:16

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.

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

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

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.’

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

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.”

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

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.

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

the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

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.

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

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.

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 remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

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.”

Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

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.

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

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

who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

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

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

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

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

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’

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

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.

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

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.”

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

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,

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”

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

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

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.

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

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 when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.