Galatians 3:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. ”

• Galatians 3:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And if ye be Christ’s - If you belong to the Messiah, and are interested in his work. Then are ye Abraham’s seed - The promise made to Abraham related to the Messiah. It was a promise that in...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Inferior, temporary, co-operating such is the distinctive nature of the Law. It had held Israel prisoner, till Christ should come. Or it resembled the slave who led a child to (Christ's) school ( 1 C...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  heirs. See Romans 4:13 . according to . Greek. kata , as verses: Galatians 3:1 ; Galatians 3:15 .

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• Galatians 3:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  29. Then are ye Abraham’s seed. This is not intended to convey the idea, that to be a child of Abraham is better than to be a member of Christ, — but to repress the pride of the Jews, who glo...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2069 BENEFITS AND OBLIGATIONS OF BAPTISM Galatians 3:27-29 . As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. And if ye be Christ's - Or, as several good MSS. read, If ye be one in Christ. If ye have all received justifi...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And if ye be Christ's, &c.— That is, if ye are united by faith to Him, who is the promised Seed, then are ye the true seed of Abraham, and, in consequence of this, heirs according to the pr...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. And heirs. So G. But A B C Delta 'Aleph (') f, Vulgate, omit "and." Christ is "Abraham's seed:" ye are "...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Justification is by Faith, not Works 1-14. The Apostle upbraids the Galatians with their speedy change from faith to legal observances, reminding them of the fact that their reception of the Spiri...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (25-29) But now the Law has been exchanged for the dispensation of faith. Henceforth the old state of pupilage is at an end. We are no longer like children, but adult members of the divine family —...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 15 THE EMANCIPATED SONS OF GOD. Galatians 3:25-29 "FAITH has come!" At this announcement Law the tutor yields up his charge; Law the jailor sets his prisoner at liberty. The age of ser...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Law Leads to Christ Galatians 3:20-29 The Mosaic law was not designed to be the final code of the religious life, but to prepare the soil of the human heart to receive Jesus Christ in all t...

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• Galatians 3:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begins the second division of the epistle, in which Paul deals with the doctrine of liberty. He begins with the exclamation, "O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you?" He then inquired, Did the...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (21) Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. (22) But the scripture h...

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• Galatians 3:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For if ye be Christ's ,.... Or seeing ye are his, not by creation only, but by the Father's gift to him, by the purchase of his own blood, by the power of his grace, making them willing to give up t...

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• Galatians 3:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Ver. 29. Heirs according ] Heirs are kept short in their under age, and sometimes forced to borrow of serv...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ In consequence of your believing in him with your heart unto righteousness, and have thereby testified and professed your faith in him; have pu...

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• Galatians 3:29 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  FAITH IS THE ONE PRINCIPLE OF BLESSING (vs.1-9) "0 foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" (v.1). Little wonder, as Paul considers the principles and tremendous issues involved, that he speaks...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Design of the Law; The True Children of Abraham. A. D.  56.       19 Wherefore then serveth the l...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Lest these Galatians should be discouraged, because the promise was made to Abraham and his seed, and they were not the seed of Abraham; he tells them, if they were Christ s, that is, if they truly b...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And if you are Christ's then you are Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.' The idea of being ‘clothed with Christ' and indwelt by Christ is now connected back with the promise given to A...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Galatians 3:26 . Ye are all the children of God. —No longer children requiring a tutor, but sons emancipated and walking at liberty. Galatians 3:28 . Ye are all...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  3:1. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? These Galatians thought th...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Galatians 3:1 . Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you: εβασκανε, who hath fascinated, beguiled, or seduced you by subtlety and cunning, and sought by ingenious malice to draw you from the t...

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• Galatians 3:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For we are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Liberty, equality, and fraternity “Liberty, equality, and fraternity,” is the three-fold watchword of the masses in modern society....

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• Galatians 3:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians (ὦ ἀνόητοι Γαλάται). In thus apostrophizing them, the apostle brands their present behaviour, not any lack of intelligence on their part...

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• Galatians 3:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Law's pedagogical task has now been completed:

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• Galatians 3:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:23 ; 1 Corinthians 3:22 ; 1 Corinthians 3:23 ; 2 Corinthians 10:7 ; Ephesians 3:6 ; Galatians 4:28 ; Galatians 4:7 ; Galatians 5:24 ; Galatians 3:16 ; Galatians 3:28 ; Gal...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Cross and Its Objectives Galatians 3:10-29 ; Galatians 4:1-6 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Cross must ever stand forth in the limelight of Bible and spiritual study. Apart from Christ's Calvary...

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• Galatians 3:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  If ye are Christ's — That is, believers in him.

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