Galatians 3:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Galatians 3:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 6:12-15
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. …
Romans 4:13-16
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. …
Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Psalms 105:42
For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
Romans 8:17
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.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. the inheritance--all the blessings to be inherited by Abraham’s literal and spiritual children, according to the promise made to him and to his Seed, Christ, justification and glorification (Ga 4:7; Ro 8:17; 1Co 6:9). but God, &c.--The Greek order requires rather, “But to Abraham it was by promise that God hath given it.” The conclusion is, Therefore the inheritance is not of, or from the law…