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Galatians 3:17
Galatians 3:17 is verse 17 of Galatians chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
King James Version
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
World English Bible
Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
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Galatians 3:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.
16 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.
17 What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
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.
19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
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Galatians 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 1:12What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
1 Corinthians 7:29What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
1 Corinthians 10:19Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
2 Corinthians 9:6Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
Ephesians 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
Colossians 2:4I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
Genesis 15:18On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:8And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Genesis 17:19But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
Luke 1:68“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.
Luke 1:69He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
Luke 1:70as He spoke through His holy prophets, those of ages past,
Luke 1:71salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,
Luke 1:72to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,
Luke 1:73the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
Luke 1:74deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,
Luke 1:75in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.
Luke 1:76And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,
Luke 1:77to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,
Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
Luke 1:79to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
John 8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”
John 8:57Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?”
John 8:58“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
Romans 3:25God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
2 Corinthians 1:20For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
Hebrews 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Hebrews 11:17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,
Hebrews 11:18even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
Hebrews 11:19Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.
Hebrews 11:39These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
Hebrews 11:40God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.
1 Peter 1:11trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
1 Peter 1:12It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
1 Peter 1:20He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
Genesis 15:13Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
Exodus 12:40Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.
Exodus 12:41At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
Acts 7:6God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
Galatians 3:15Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.
Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
Isaiah 14:27The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
Isaiah 28:18Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
Hebrews 7:18So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless
Galatians 3:21Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
Romans 4:13For 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.
Romans 4:14For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,
Hebrews 6:13When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
Hebrews 6:14saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.”
Hebrews 6:15And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.
Hebrews 6:16Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument.
Hebrews 6:17So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
Hebrews 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
Galatians 5:4You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
Numbers 30:8But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.
Psalms 33:10The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
Romans 3:3What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
1 Corinthians 1:17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.