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Galatians 3:28-29 KJV
Galatians · chapter 3 · verses 28–29
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.Galatians 3:28-29 · King James Version
What Galatians 3:28-29 means
Verse twenty-eight takes the dividing lines away; verse twenty-nine says what you get instead — Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Paul's argument is that the inheritance never ran through ancestry. It ran through the promise, which is why it can reach anybody.
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Galatians 3:28-29 in context
26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Commentary
Cross references
- 1 Corinthians 12:12-13
- Colossians 3:11
- Romans 3:29-30
- Galatians 5:6
- Romans 10:12-15
- John 10:16
- Ephesians 2:13-22
- Ephesians 4:4
- Ephesians 3:6
- Romans 9:7-8
- Galatians 3:7
- Romans 8:17
Key words (Strong's)
- Abraham'sabraamAbraham = " father of a multitude" , the son of Terah and the founder of the…G11 →
- accordingkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- femalethēlysof the female sex, a woman, a femaleG2338 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- Greekhellēna Greek either by nationality, whether a native of the main land or of the Greek islands…G1672 →
- heirsklēronomosone who receives by lot, an heir, an heir, in Messianic usage, one who receives his…G2818 →
- bonddoulosa slave, bondman, man of servile condition, a slave, metaph., one who gives himself up to…G1401 →
- freeeleutherosfreeborn, in a civil sense, one who is not a slave, of one who ceases to be a slave…G1658 →
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The apostle having just before been speaking of the promise made to Abraham, and representing that as the rule of our justification, and not the law, lest they should think he did too much derogate from the law, and render it altogether useless, he thence takes occasion to discourse of the design and tendency of it,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-29