Galatians 3:17

American Standard Version (1901)

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

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  • Gen 15:13 : 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
  • Gen 15:18 : 18 In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 And God said, Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him. [
  • Exod 12:40-41 : 40 Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
  • Num 30:8 : 8 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he heareth it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul: and Jehovah will forgive her.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
  • Isa 14:27 : 27 For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
  • Isa 28:18 : 18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
  • Luke 1:68-79 : 68 Blessed [be] the Lord, the God of Israel; For he hath visited and wrought redemption for his people, 69 And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of his servant David 70 (As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from of old), 71 Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; 72 To show mercy towards, our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant; 73 The oath which he spake unto Abraham our father, 74 To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies Should serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him all our days. 76 Yea and thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High: For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways; 77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people In the remission of their sins, 78 Because of the tender mercy of our God, Whereby the dayspring from on high shall visit us, 79 To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  • John 8:56-58 : 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad. 57 The Jews therefore said unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was born, I am.
  • Acts 7:6 : 6 And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.
  • Rom 3:3 : 3 For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?
  • Rom 3:25 : 25 whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;
  • Rom 4:13-14 : 13 For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:
  • 1 Cor 1:12 : 12 Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 1:17 : 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
  • 1 Cor 10:19 : 19 What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
  • 2 Cor 1:20 : 20 For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.
  • 2 Cor 9:6 : 6 But this [I say], He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
  • Gal 3:15 : 15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
  • Col 2:4 : 4 This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
  • Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself, 14 saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 17 Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:
  • Heb 7:18 : 18 For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness
  • Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Heb 11:17-19 : 17 By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten [son] ; 18 [ even he] to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.
  • Heb 11:39-40 : 39 And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise, 40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
  • 1 Pet 1:11-12 : 11 searching what [time] or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them. 12 To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 3:18-19
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    18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.

    19What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; [and it was] ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

  • Gal 3:14-16
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    14that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

    15Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.

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

  • Rom 4:13-16
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    13For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

    14For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

    15for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

    16For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

  • Gal 3:21-25
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    21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.

    22But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

    23But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

    24So that the law is become our tutor [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

    25But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor.

  • Rom 3:31
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    31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

  • Heb 7:18-19
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    18For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness

    19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.

  • 1 Chr 16:16-17
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    16[ The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,

    17And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Gal 3:29
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    29And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

  • Gen 17:9
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    9And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations.

  • Gal 3:7-12
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    7Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

    8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

    9So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

    10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

    12and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

  • Heb 9:17
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    17For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.

  • Ps 105:9-10
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    9[ The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,

    10And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Gen 17:7
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    7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.

  • Heb 6:13
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    13For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,

  • Gal 4:21-23
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    21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

    22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.

    23Howbeit the [son] by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the [son] by the freewoman [is born] through promise.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13In that he saith, A new [covenant] he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

  • Rom 3:20-21
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    20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.

    21But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

  • Heb 8:7
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    7For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.

  • Gal 2:16
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    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises.

  • Gen 17:21
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    21But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

  • Rom 9:9
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    9For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

  • Heb 7:16
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    16who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

    28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Rom 7:7
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.