Galatians 3:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

And 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.

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  • Gen 15:13 : 13 Then he saide to Abram, Knowe for a suretie, that thy seede shalbe a stranger in a land, that is not theirs, foure hundreth yeeres, and shall serue them: & they shall intreate them euill.
  • Gen 15:18 : 18 In that same day the Lord made a couenant with Abram, saying, Vnto thy seede haue I giuen this lande, from the riuer of Egypt vnto the great riuer, the riuer Euphrates.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 Moreouer 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. 8 And I will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, euen all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 Then God saide, Sarah thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, and thou shalt call his name Izhak: and I will establish my couenant with him for an euerlasting couenant, and with his seede after him.
  • Exod 12:40-41 : 40 So the dwelling of the children of Israel, while they dwelled in Egypt, was foure hundreth and thirtie yeres. 41 And when the foure hundreth & thirtie yeeres were expired, euen the selfe same day departed all the hostes of the Lord out of the land of Egypt.
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not as man, that he should lie, neither as the sonne of man that he shoulde repent: hath he sayde and shal he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shal he not accomplish it?
  • Num 30:8 : 8 (30:9) But if her husbande disalow her the same day that hee heareth it, then shall hee make her vowe which shee hath made, and that that shee hath pronounced with her lips, wherewith shee bound her selfe, of none effect: and the Lorde will forgiue her.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 (40:3) Wilt thou disanul my iudgement? or wilt thou condemne me, that thou mayst be iustified?
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 The Lorde breaketh the counsell of the heathen, and bringeth to nought the deuices of the people.
  • Isa 14:27 : 27 Because the Lorde of hostes hath determined it, and who shall disanull it? and his hande is stretched out, and who shall turne it away?
  • Isa 28:18 : 18 And your couenant with death shalbe disanulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand: when a scourge shall runne ouer and passe through, then shall ye be trode downe by it.
  • Luke 1:68-79 : 68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised vp the horne of saluation vnto vs, in the house of his seruant Dauid, 70 As he spake by ye mouth of his holy Prophets, which were since the world began, saying, 71 That he would sende vs deliuerance fro our enemies, and from the hands of all that hate vs, 72 That he might shewe mercie towards our fathers, and remember his holy couenant, 73 And the othe which he sware to our father Abraham. 74 Which was, that he would graunt vnto vs, that we being deliuered out of the handes of our enemies, should serue him without feare, 75 All the daies of our life, in holinesse and righteousnesse before him. 76 And thou, babe, shalt be called the Prophet of the most High: for thou shalt goe before the face of the Lord, to prepare his waies, 77 And to giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes, 78 Through ye tender mercy of our God, wherby the day spring from an hie hath visited vs, 79 To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, & to guide our feete into the way of peace.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the Lawe was giuen by Moses, but grace, and trueth came by Iesus Christ.
  • John 8:56-58 : 56 Your father Abraham reioyced to see my day, and he sawe it, and was glad. 57 Then sayd ye Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeere olde, & hast thou seene Abraham? 58 Iesus sayd vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, before Abraham was, I am.
  • Acts 7:6 : 6 But God spake thus, that his seede should be a soiourner in a strange land: and that they should keepe it in bondage, and entreate it euill foure hundreth yeeres.
  • Rom 3:3 : 3 For what, though some did not beleeue? Shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?
  • Rom 3:25 : 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousnes, by the forgiuenesse of the sinnes that are passed,
  • Rom 4:13-14 : 13 For 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. 14 For if they which are of the Lawe, be heires, faith is made voide, & the promise is made of none effect.
  • 1 Cor 1:12 : 12 Nowe this I say, that euery one of you saith, I am Pauls, and I am Apollos, and I am Cephas, and I am Christs.
  • 1 Cor 1:17 : 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preache the Gospel, not with wisdome of wordes, lest the crosse of Christ should be made of none effect.
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 And this I say, brethren, because the time is short, hereafter that both they which haue wiues, be as though they had none:
  • 1 Cor 10:19 : 19 What say I then? that the idole is any thing? or that that which is sacrificed to idoles, is any thing?
  • 2 Cor 1:20 : 20 For all the promises of God in him are Yea, and are in him Amen, vnto the glorie of God through vs.
  • 2 Cor 9:6 : 6 This yet remember, that he which soweth sparingly, shall reape also sparingly, and hee that soweth liberally, shall reape also liberally.
  • Gal 3:15 : 15 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.
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is 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.
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 Ye are abolished from Christ: whosoeuer are iustified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore and testifie in the Lorde, that yee hencefoorth walke not as other Gentiles walke, in vanitie of their minde,
  • Col 2:4 : 4 And this I say, lest any man shoulde beguile you with entising wordes:
  • Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe, 14 Saying, Surely I wil aboundantly blesse thee and multiplie thee marueilously. 15 And so after that he had taried patiently, he enioyed the promes. 16 For men verely sweare by him that is greater then themselues, and an othe for confirmation is among them an ende of all strife. 17 So God, willing more aboundantly to shew vnto the heires of promes the stablenes of his counsell, bound himselfe by an othe, 18 That by two immutable things, wherein it is vnpossible that God should lye, we might haue strong consolation, which haue our refuge to lay holde vpon that hope that is set before vs,
  • Heb 7:18 : 18 For the commaundement that went afore, is disanulled, because of the weakenes thereof, and vnprofitablenes.
  • Heb 11:13 : 13 All these died in faith, and receiued not the promises, but sawe them a farre off, and beleeued them, and receiued them thankefully, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Heb 11:17-19 : 17 By faith Abraham offered vp Isaac, when he was tryed, and he that had receiued the promises, offered his onely begotten sonne. 18 (To whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seede be called.) 19 For he considered that God was able to raise him vp euen from the dead: from whence he receiued him also after a sort.
  • Heb 11:39-40 : 39 And these all through faith obteined good report, and receiued not the promes, 40 God prouiding a better thing for vs, that they without vs should not be made perfite.
  • 1 Pet 1:11-12 : 11 Searching when or what time the Spirite which testified before of Christ which was in them, shoulde declare the sufferings that should come vnto Christ, and the glorie that shoulde followe. 12 Vnto whome it was reueiled, that not vnto themselues, but vnto vs they shoulde minister the things, which are nowe shewed vnto you by them which haue preached vnto you the Gospell by the holy Ghost sent downe from heauen, the which things the Angels desire to beholde.
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 Which was ordeined before the foundation of the world, but was declared in the last times for your sakes,
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 Then I say, Walke in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lustes of the flesh.

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    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.

  • Gal 3:14-16
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    14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Iesus, that wee might receiue the promes of the Spirite through faith.

    15Brethren, 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.

    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.

  • Rom 4:13-16
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    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.

    15For the Lawe causeth wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.

    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,

  • Gal 3:21-25
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    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.

    23But before faith came, we were kept vnder the Law, as vnder a garison, and shut vp vnto that faith, which should afterward be reueiled.

    24Wherefore the Lawe was our scholemaster to bring vs to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

    25But after that faith is come, we are no longer vnder a scholemaster.

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

  • Heb 7:18-19
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    18For the commaundement that went afore, is disanulled, because of the weakenes thereof, and vnprofitablenes.

    19For the Law made nothing perfite, but the bringing in of a better hope made perfite, whereby we drawe neere vnto God.

  • 1 Chr 16:16-17
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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,

  • Gal 3:29
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    29And if ye be Christes, then are ye Abrahams seede, and heires by promes.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17So God, willing more aboundantly to shew vnto the heires of promes the stablenes of his counsell, bound himselfe by an othe,

  • Gen 17:9
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    9Againe God said vnto Abraham, Thou also shalt keepe my couenant, thou, and thy seede after thee in their generations.

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    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.

    11And that no man is iustified by the Law in the sight of God, it is euident: for the iust shall liue by faith.

    12And the Lawe is not of faith: but the man that shall doe those things, shall liue in them.

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    4Ye are abolished from Christ: whosoeuer are iustified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.

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    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.

  • Ps 105:9-10
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    9Euen that which he made with Abraham, and his othe vnto Izhak:

    10And since hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,

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    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.

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

  • Gal 4:21-23
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    21Tell me, ye that will be vnder the Law, doe ye not heare the Lawe?

    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.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13In that he saith a new Testament, he hath abrogate the olde: nowe that which is disanulled and waxed olde, is ready to vanish away.

  • Rom 3:20-21
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    20Therefore by the woorkes of the Lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne.

    21But nowe is the righteousnesse, of God made manifest without the Lawe, hauing witnes of the Lawe and of the Prophets,

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    7For if that first Testament had bene vnblameable, no place should haue bene sought for the second.

  • Gal 2:16
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    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.

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

  • Gen 17:21
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    21But my couenant will I establish with Izhak, which Sarah shall beare vnto thee, the next yeere at this season.

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

  • Heb 7:16
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    16Which is not made Priest after the Law of the carnal commandement, but after the power of the endlesse life.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where is then the reioycing? It is excluded. By what Lawe? of woorkes? Nay: but by the Lawe of faith.

    28Therefore we conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the workes of the Lawe.

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    7What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust.

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    21I doe not abrogate the grace of God: for if righteousnes be by the Lawe, then Christ dyed without a cause.