Sentences with phrase «fellow heirs»
The phrase "fellow heirs" means that two or more people will share the same inheritance or possess something together. In other words, they will both have the same rights and benefits to a specific thing, usually passed down from a family member or related to an important possession or property. Full definition
You have been included in the promises, and become fellow heirs.
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It is supremely fitting that we love those friends and fellow heirs of Jesus Christ, who are also our brothers and extraordinary benefactors, that we render due thanks to God for them and «suppliantly invoke them and have recourse to their prayers, their power and help in obtaining benefits from God through His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who is our sole Redeemer and Savior.»
Instead of division, strife, and rivalry, we are all one family, fellow heirs of God, recipients of the promises (1:3 - 14; 2:11 - 22).
(So Christians are «fellow heirs with Christ,» as Paul says in Romans 8: 17.)
But Paul declares gentile believers in Christ to be full and equal members of God's people: «The gentiles have become fellow heirs, members of the same body and sharers in the promise...» (Eph.
Paul expresses his wonder at the «mystery» kept hidden from previous generations, that «the gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel» (Eph.
1 Peter 3:7: You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,
The mystery which was revealed to Paul was that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise!