Verse 17

And this I say, that the covenant, which was confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul, that it should make the promise of no effect.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Og dette sier jeg: Den pakt som ble bekreftet av Gud i Kristus, kan ikke annulleres av loven som kom etter, fire hundre og tretti år etter; slik at den ikke kan gjøre løftet til intet.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Dette sier jeg: En avtale som er bekreftet av Gud i Kristus, kan ikke oppheves av loven som kom 430 år senere, så den skulle gjøres ugyldig.

• Norsk King James

  Og dette sier jeg: Pakt som ble bekreftet av Gud i Kristus, kan ikke loven, som kom fire hundre og tretti år senere, gjøre ugyldig, slik at den kan avskaffe løftet.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg sier dette: En pakt som på forhånd er gjort gyldig av Gud om Kristus, kan ikke loven, som ble gitt 430 år senere, gjøre ugyldig, slik at den opphever løftet.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Og dette sier jeg, at pakten, som var bekreftet av Gud i Kristus, loven, som kom fire hundre og tretti år etter, kan ikke annullere, så den skulle gjøre løftet til intet.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Dette sier jeg, en pakt som Gud allerede hadde stadfestet med Kristus, blir ikke opphevet av loven som kom fire hundre tretti år senere, så løftet skulle gjøres ugyldig.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Dette sier jeg: En pakt som tidligere ble bekreftet av Gud i Kristus, kan ikke loven, som ble gitt fire hundre og tretti år senere, oppheve, slik at løftet blir til ingen nytte.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Og dette sier jeg: den pakt som Gud fastsatte i Kristus, kan ikke bli opphevet av loven, som ble innført 430 år senere, slik at løftet ikke lenger får virkning.

• gpt4.5-preview

  Dette vil jeg si: Pakten som tidligere ble stadfestet av Gud i Kristus, kan ikke loven, som kom fire hundre og tretti år senere, sette til side, slik at løftet settes ut av kraft.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Dette vil jeg si: Pakten som tidligere ble stadfestet av Gud i Kristus, kan ikke loven, som kom fire hundre og tretti år senere, sette til side, slik at løftet settes ut av kraft.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Dette sier jeg: En testamente som tidligere er blitt stadfestet av Gud, blir ikke opphevet av loven som kom fire hundre og tretti år etter, slik at løftet settes til side.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  This is what I mean: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus cancel the promise.

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Dette sier jeg, at loven, som kom 430 år senere, ikke opphever Guds pakt som tidligere var stadfestet, så løftet skulle bli uten virkning.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men dette siger jeg: Den Pagt, som forud er stadfæstet af Gud om Christo, kan Loven, som blev given fire hundrede og tredive Aar derefter, ikke rygge, saa at den skulde gjøre Forjættelsen til Intet.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Og dette sier jeg: En pakt som tidligere er stadfestet av Gud i Kristus, kan ikke loven, som kom 430 år etter, gjøre ugyldig, så den opphever løftet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Dette sier jeg: En pakt, bekreftet av Gud i Kristus, blir ikke opphevet av loven, som kom fire hundre og tretti år senere, slik at den skulle gjøre løftet til intet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Og dette sier jeg: En allerede stadfestet pakt av Gud i Kristus kan ikke loven, som kom fire hundre og tretti år senere, oppheve, slik at løftet skulle bli gjort intet.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Dette sier jeg: En pakt som allerede er bekreftet av Gud, kan ikke loven, som kom fire hundre og tretti år etter, gjøre ugyldig slik at løftet blir til intet.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Det sier jeg: Loven, som kom fire hundre og tretti år senere, kan ikke oppheve en tidligere avtale stadfestet av Gud, og gjøre løftet til intet.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  This I saye that the lawe which beganne afterwarde beyonde.iiii.C and.xxx. yeares doth not disanull the testament that was confermed afore of God vnto Christ ward to make the promes of none effect.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  This Testament (I saye) which afore was confirmed to Christ warde, is not disanulled (that the promes shulde be made of none affecte) by the lawe which was geuen beyonde foure hundreth & thirtie yeares therafter.

• 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.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  This I say, that the lawe which began afterwarde, beyonde foure hundred and thirtie yeres, doth not disanull the testament that was confirmed afore of God, vnto Christe warde, to make the promise of none effect.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• 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,

• 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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 15:13 : 13 And He said to Abram, Know certainly that your offspring shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
• Gen 15:18 : 18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants 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 you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. 8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
• Gen 17:19 : 19 And God said, Sarah your wife shall indeed bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.
• Exod 12:40-41 : 40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on the very same day, it came to pass that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
• Num 30:8 : 8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it, then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul, of no effect, and the LORD shall forgive her.
• Job 40:8 : 8 Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
• Ps 33:10 : 10 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he makes the plans of the people of no effect.
• Isa 14:27 : 27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
• Isa 28:18 : 18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trampled down by it.
• Luke 1:68-79 : 68 Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people, 69 And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David, 70 As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, who have been since the world began, 71 That we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us, 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, 73 The oath which He swore to our father Abraham: 74 To grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life. 76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, 77 To give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins, 78 Through the tender mercy of our God, with which the Dayspring from on high has visited us, 79 To give light to those who 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, but 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 Then the Jews said to him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham? 58 Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am.
• Acts 7:6 : 6 And God spoke in this way, that his descendants would dwell in a strange land, and that they would bring them into bondage, and treat them poorly for four hundred years.
• Rom 3:3 : 3 For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?
• Rom 3:25 : 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
• Rom 4:13-14 : 13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or to his descendants, 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 nullified.
• 1 Cor 1:12 : 12 Now I say this, that every one of you says, I 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 preach the gospel, not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
• 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short; so that from now on, even those who have wives should be as though they had none,
• 1 Cor 10:19 : 19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?
• 2 Cor 1:20 : 20 For all the promises of God in him are yes, and in him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
• 2 Cor 9:6 : 6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Gal 3:15 : 15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it is but a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no man annuls or adds to it.
• Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law.
• Gal 5:4 : 4 Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.
• Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
• Col 2:4 : 4 And this I say, lest anyone should beguile you with enticing words.
• Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14 Saying, 'Surely, blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.' 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For people indeed swear by something greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end to all dispute. 17 In this way, God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable nature of His purpose, confirmed it with an oath: 18 That by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us:
• Heb 7:18 : 18 For there is indeed a setting aside of the former 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 afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
• Heb 11:17-19 : 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 of whom it was said, 'In Isaac your seed shall be called,' 19 concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
• Heb 11:39-40 : 39 And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, 40 God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.
• 1 Pet 1:11-12 : 11 Searching for what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. 12 To them it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which have now been reported to you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.
• 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
• Gal 5:16 : 16 I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.