7Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. …
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. …
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
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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