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Galatians 3:5-9
New Catholic Bible
Galatians 3:5-9
New Catholic Bible
5 Does God give you the Spirit and work mighty deeds among you because you have kept the Law or because you believed what you have heard?
The Blessing of Abraham.[a] 6 Thus Abraham believed in God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. 7 You can be assured that those who have faith are children of Abraham. 8 Because Scripture foresaw[b] that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, it declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.” 9 For this reason, those who have faith share the blessing with Abraham, the faithful one.
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- Galatians 3:6 God has a blessing for humankind; it is reserved to faith. The promise made to Abraham was a personal, free, and direct commitment of God, and such it remained and still remains for all human beings; it is this promise that Christ fulfills.
- Galatians 3:8 Scripture foresaw: Paul personifies Scripture, thus stressing its divine origin (see 1 Tim 5:18).
