18For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
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That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. …
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. …
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-18)The apostle having reproved the Galatians for not obeying the truth, and endeavoured to impress them with a sense of their folly herein, in these verses he largely proves the doctrine which he had reproved them for rejecting, namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does several ways. I. From the example of Abraham’s justification. This argument the apostle uses…
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