For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

But the scripture imprisoned everything and everyone under sin so that the promise could be given – because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ – to those who believe.

and saying, “Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”