Galatians 3:17

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.

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

Acts 7:6

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

Exodus 12:40-41

Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

Genesis 15:18

That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River --

Genesis 17:7-8

I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:19

God said, "No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?

Numbers 30:8

But if when her husband hears it he overrules her, then he will nullify the vow she has taken, and whatever she uttered impulsively which she has pledged for herself. And the Lord will release her from it.

Job 40:8

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Psalm 33:10

The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.

Isaiah 14:27

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?

Isaiah 28:18

Your treaty with death will be dissolved; your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it.

Luke 1:68-79

"Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

John 8:56-58

Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

Romans 3:3

What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

Romans 3:25

God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

Romans 4:13-14

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

1 Corinthians 1:12

Now I mean this, that each of you is saying, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," or "I am with Cephas," or "I am with Christ."

1 Corinthians 1:17

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel -- and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

1 Corinthians 7:29

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

1 Corinthians 10:19

Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

2 Corinthians 1:20

For every one of God's promises are "Yes" in him; therefore also through him the "Amen" is spoken, to the glory we give to God.

2 Corinthians 9:6

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

Galatians 3:15

Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

Galatians 5:4

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

Galatians 5:16

But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

Ephesians 4:17

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Colossians 2:4

I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.

Hebrews 6:13-18

Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

Hebrews 7:18

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

Hebrews 11:17-19

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

Hebrews 11:39-40

And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

1 Peter 1:11-12

They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory.

1 Peter 1:20

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

Which

Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
Exodus 12:40
Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.
Acts 7:6
But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

Cannot

Galatians 3:15
Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.
Job 40:8
Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
Isaiah 14:27
Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?
Isaiah 28:18
Your treaty with death will be dissolved; your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it.
Hebrews 7:18
On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

That it

Galatians 3:21
Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?
Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
Hebrews 6:13
Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

None

Galatians 5:4
You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!
Numbers 30:8
But if when her husband hears it he overrules her, then he will nullify the vow she has taken, and whatever she uttered impulsively which she has pledged for herself. And the Lord will release her from it.
Psalm 33:10
The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.
Romans 3:3
What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?
1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel -- and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

General references

Leviticus 12:3
On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.
Deuteronomy 5:3
He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.
Luke 1:55
as he promised to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever."

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