Galatians 3:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

Brethren, I speake as men do: though it be but a mans couenant, when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate it, or addeth any thing thereto.

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  • Heb 9:17 : 17 For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead: for it is yet of no force as long as he that made it, is aliue.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 Now if our vnrighteousnes comend the righteousnes of God, what shal we say? Is God vnrighteous which punisheth? (I speake as a man.)
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 I speake after the maner of man, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue giuen your members seruants to vncleannes and to iniquitie, to commit iniquitie, so now giue your mebers seruants vnto righteousnesse in holinesse.
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If I haue fought with beastes at Ephesus after ye maner of men, what aduantageth it me, if the dead be not raised vp? let vs eate and drinke: for to morowe we shall die.

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  • Gal 3:16-19
    4 verses
    82%

    16Nowe to Abraham and his seede were the promises made. Hee saith not, And to the seedes, as speaking of many: but, And to thy seede, as of one, which is Christ.

    17And this I say, that the couenant that was confirmed afore of God in respect of Christ, the Lawe which was foure hundreth and thirtie yeeres after, can not disanull, that it shoulde make the promise of none effect.

    18For if the inheritance be of the Lawe, it is no more by the promise, but God gaue it freely vnto Abraham by promise.

    19Wherefore then serueth the Law? It was added because of the transgressions, til the seed came, vnto the which the promise was made: and it was ordeined by Angels in the hande of a Mediatour.

  • 14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Iesus, that wee might receiue the promes of the Spirite through faith.

  • 29And if ye be Christes, then are ye Abrahams seede, and heires by promes.

  • Heb 6:13-17
    5 verses
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    13For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe,

    14Saying, Surely I wil aboundantly blesse thee and multiplie thee marueilously.

    15And so after that he had taried patiently, he enioyed the promes.

    16For men verely sweare by him that is greater then themselues, and an othe for confirmation is among them an ende of all strife.

    17So God, willing more aboundantly to shew vnto the heires of promes the stablenes of his counsell, bound himselfe by an othe,

  • 16Therefore it is by faith, that it might come by grace, and the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Lawe: but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,

  • Rom 4:13-14
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    72%

    13For the promise that he should be the heire of the worlde, was not giuen to Abraham, or to his seede, through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.

    14For if they which are of the Lawe, be heires, faith is made voide, & the promise is made of none effect.

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    16Which he made with Abraham, and his othe to Izhak:

    17And hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a Law, & to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,

  • 25Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the couenant, which God hath made vnto our fathers, saying to Abraham, Euen in thy seede shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

  • Gal 3:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21Is the Lawe then against the promises of God? God forbid: For if there had bene a Lawe giuen which coulde haue giuen life, surely righteousnes should haue bene by the Lawe.

    22But the Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne, that the promes by the faith of Iesus Christ should be giuen to them that beleeue.

  • Gal 3:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7Knowe ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

    8For the Scripture foreseeing, that God would iustifie the Gentiles through faith, preached before the Gospel vnto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.

    9So then they which be of faith, are blessed with faithfull Abraham.

    10For as many as are of the workes of the Lawe, are vnder the curse: for it is written, Cursed is euery man that continueth not in all things, which are written in the booke of the Law, to doe them.

  • Gal 4:22-23
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    71%

    22For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, one by a seruant, and one by a free woman.

    23But he which was of the seruant, was borne after the flesh: and he which was of the free woman, was borne by promes.

  • Gen 17:9-10
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    71%

    9Againe God said vnto Abraham, Thou also shalt keepe my couenant, thou, and thy seede after thee in their generations.

    10This is my couenant which ye shall keepe betweene me & you, & thy seede after thee, Let euery man childe among you be circumcised:

  • 28Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promes.

  • 6But he whose kindred is not couted among them, receiued tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

  • 9Euen that which he made with Abraham, and his othe vnto Izhak:

  • 8Nowe I say, that Iesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision, for the trueth of God, to confirme the promises made vnto the fathers.

  • 18(To whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seede be called.)

  • 3Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire.

  • 73And the othe which he sware to our father Abraham.

  • 4Beholde, I make my couenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations,

  • 1What shal we say then, that Abraham our father hath found concerning the flesh?

  • 16Knowe that a man is not iustified by the works of the Law, but by ye faith of Iesus Christ, euen we, I say, haue beleeued in Iesus Christ, that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ, & not by the workes of the Lawe, because that by the workes of the Lawe, no flesh shalbe iustified.

  • Rom 3:30-31
    2 verses
    68%

    30For it is one God, who shall iustifie circumcision of faith, and vncircumcision through faith.

    31Doe we then make the Lawe of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Lawe.

  • 7Moreouer I wil establish my couenant betweene me and thee, and thy seede after thee in their generations, for an euerlasting couenant, to be God vnto thee and to thy seede after thee.

  • 17When I therefore was thus minded, did I vse lightnesse? or minde I those thinges which I minde, according to the flesh, that with me should be, Yea, yea, and Nay, nay?

  • 17For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead: for it is yet of no force as long as he that made it, is aliue.

  • Gal 4:30-31
    2 verses
    68%

    30But what sayth the Scripture? Put out the seruant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.

    31Then brethren, we are not children of the seruant, but of the free woman.

  • 6But by them which seemed to be great, I was not taught (whatsoeuer they were in time passed, I am nothing the better: God accepteth no mans person) for they that are the chiefe, did adde nothing to me aboue that I had.

  • 13He that is borne in thine house, & he that is bought with thy money, must needes be circumcised: so my couenant shall be in your flesh for an euerlasting couenant.

  • 2And I will make my couenant betweene me and thee, & I will multiplie thee exceedingly.

  • 10Howe was it then imputed? when he was circumcised, or vncircumcised? not when he was cricumcised, but when he was vncircumcised.

  • 3For I testifie againe to euery man, which is circumcised, that he is bound to keepe the whole Lawe.

  • 9For this is a worde of promes, In this same time wil I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.