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All Families of the Earth Blessed Through Abraham’s Offspring – Christ

T'oros Roslin Gospels, The Ancestors of Christ, Walters Manuscript W.539, fol. 15r
T’oros Roslin Gospels, The Ancestors of Christ, Walters Manuscript

Genesis 12:3 (KJV) And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

 

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Brooklyn Museum - The Raising of the Cross (L'élévation de la Croix) - James Tissot

Psalm 72:17 (KJV) His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

 

Galatians 3:8  And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.