Cross references

Galatians 3:18

For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

Galatians 3:18 BSB

Galatians 3:18 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Romans 4:13–16 (6 votes) and Galatians 2:21 (5 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 17 to 1 Peter 1.

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Which verses does Galatians 3:18 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless, …

  2. I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

  3. Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself, …

  4. For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

  5. O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones. He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth. …

  6. He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful, as He promised to our fathers, to Abraham and his descendants forever.”

  7. to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us

  8. And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

  9. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

  10. Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea. …

  11. All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

  12. The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

  13. The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

  14. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Which verses point to Galatians 3:18?

The 10 strongest of 21.