Galatians 3:14
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Study Note
Study Note
Paul identifies the telos of the Abrahamic promise as the extension of blessing to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that 'we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.' The equation of the Abrahamic blessing with the Spirit-gift is Paul's most concentrated formulation of how the Old Testament promise arrives in the New Testament community: not territorial expansion but pneumatological reception. The verse also resolves the apparent tension between Genesis 12:3 (blessing to all families) and the curse of the law (3:13) — Christ becoming a curse redeems from the curse and unlocks the blessing. Acts 2:38's 'repent and be baptized… and you will receive the gift of the Spirit' presents the same convergence of Abrahamic promise and Spirit-reception in the apostolic proclamation.
Other Translations
that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.
So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.
Cross References
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And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
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But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
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And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of …
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and …
For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like …