Galatians 3:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

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  • Gen 15:13 : 13 and He saith to Abram, `knowing -- know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,
  • Gen 15:18 : 18 In that day hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, `To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat,
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee; 8 and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.
  • Exod 12:40-41 : 40 And the dwelling of the sons of Israel which they have dwelt in Egypt `is' four hundred and thirty years; 41 and it cometh to pass, at the end of four hundred and thirty years -- yea, it cometh to pass in this self-same day -- all the hosts of Jehovah have gone out from the land of Egypt.
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God `is' not a man -- and lieth, And a son of man -- and repenteth! Hath He said -- and doth He not do `it'? And spoken -- and doth He not confirm it?
  • Num 30:8 : 8 `And if in the day of her husband's hearing he disalloweth her, then he hath broken her vow which `is' on her, and the wrongful utterance of her lips which she hath bound on her soul, and Jehovah is propitious to her.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.
  • Isa 14:27 : 27 For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it back?'
  • Isa 28:18 : 18 And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.
  • Luke 1:68-79 : 68 `Blessed `is' the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people, 69 And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant, 70 As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age; 71 Salvation from our enemies, And out of the hand of all hating us, 72 To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant, 73 An oath that He sware to Abraham our father, 74 To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered, 75 To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life. 76 And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways. 77 To give knowledge of salvation to His people In remission of their sins, 78 Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon us, 79 To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'
  • John 1:17 : 17 for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;
  • John 8:56-58 : 56 Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.' 57 The Jews, therefore, said unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?' 58 Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'
  • Acts 7:6 : 6 `And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,
  • Rom 3:3 : 3 for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?
  • Rom 3:25 : 25 whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God --
  • Rom 4:13-14 : 13 For not through law `is' the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith; 14 for if they who are of law `are' heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;
  • 1 Cor 1:12 : 12 and I say this, that each one of you saith, `I, indeed, am of Paul' -- `and I of Apollos,' -- `and I of Cephas,' -- `and I of Christ.'
  • 1 Cor 1:17 : 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;
  • 1 Cor 10:19 : 19 what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --
  • 2 Cor 1:20 : 20 for as many as `are' promises of God, in him `are' the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;
  • 2 Cor 9:6 : 6 And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;
  • Gal 3:15 : 15 Brethren, as a man I say `it', even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,
  • Col 2:4 : 4 and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,
  • Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself, 14 saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;' 15 and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise; 16 for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation `is' the oath, 17 in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath, 18 that through two immutable things, in which `it is' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us',
  • Heb 7:18 : 18 for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,
  • Heb 11:13 : 13 In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,
  • Heb 11:17-19 : 17 By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, 18 of whom it was said -- `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' 19 reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive `him'.
  • Heb 11:39-40 : 39 and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise, 40 God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.
  • 1 Pet 1:11-12 : 11 searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these, 12 to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

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    14that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

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    16and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

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    13For not through law `is' the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

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    15for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither `is' transgression.

    16Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,

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    23And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

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    18for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,

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    16Which He hath made with Abraham, And His oath -- to Isaac,

    17And He establisheth it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29and if ye `are' of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.

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    17in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

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

    22for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

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    7for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.

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    16who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

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    21I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness `be' through law -- then Christ died in vain.