Bible Strands
Galatians 3:26
You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul writes to the Galatian churches, who are being drawn back under the Mosaic Law as a requirement for standing before God. He is mid-argument: faith has arrived (v. 25), the guardian is finished, and this verse states what that means for identity.
The words — Huioi (υἱοὶ) means "sons" in the legal sense of inheritance heirs, not the generic "children" (tekna). Pantes (πᾶντες) marks the scope as total; no subset is excluded.
The thread — The same sonship-by-faith formula appears in Ephesians 1:5 (predestined for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ), John 1:12 (right to become children of God given to those who believe), and 2 Corinthians 6:18 ("I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters").
Why it lands — It is a flat identity claim with no performance clause attached; the reader is asked to stop adding conditions to their standing before God and to accept that faith in Christ alone is the ground of sonship.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Cross-references
- Ephesians 1:5 He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
- 2 Corinthians 6:18 And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
- John 1:12 But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
- Galatians 4:5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
- 1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
- Romans 8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
- Philippians 2:15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- Revelation 21:7 The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
- Ephesians 5:1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
- John 20:17 “Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”