Galatians 3:15
Brothers, I speak like men. Though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
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- Heb 9:17 : 17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
- Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
- Rom 6:19 : 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
- 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
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- Gal 3:16-194 verses82%
16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.
17 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.
18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
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14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
- Heb 6:13-175 verses74%
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,
14 saying, "Most surely I will bless you, and I will surely multiply you."
15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
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16 For 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.
- Rom 4:13-142 verses72%
13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
- 1 Chr 16:16-172 verses72%
16 [The covenant] which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
17 Confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'
- Gal 3:21-222 verses72%
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law.
22 But the Scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
- Gal 3:7-104 verses71%
7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.
8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."
9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
- Gal 4:22-232 verses71%
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.
23 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
- Gen 17:9-102 verses71%
9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
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28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
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6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has taken tithes of Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
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9 The covenant which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
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8 Now I say that Christ has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
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18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"
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3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
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73 The oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,
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4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
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1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
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16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
- Rom 3:30-312 verses68%
30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
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7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
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17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"
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17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
- Gal 4:30-312 verses68%
30 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."
31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.
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6 But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
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13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
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2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
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10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
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3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
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9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."