Galatians 3:17

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.

Which

Genesis 15:13

Exodus 12:40

Acts 7:6

Cannot

Hebrews 7:18

That it

None

1 Corinthians 1:17

General references

Leviticus 12:3

Deuteronomy 5:3

Luke 1:55

Bible References

Which

Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.

The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.

And God spoke to this effect--that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.

Cannot

To give a human example, brothers:even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?

For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness

That it

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.

God is not man, that he should lie, or 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?

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

None

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. And the LORD will forgive her.

The LORDbrings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

General references

And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.

as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever."