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

And He said to Abram, You must surely know that your seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs, and shall serve them. And they shall afflict them four hundred years.

And the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

And God spoke in this way, that his seed would be a tenant in another land, and that they would enslave it and oppress it four hundred years.

Cannot

Brothers, I speak according to man, a covenant having been ratified, even among mankind, no one sets aside or adds to it.

Will you also set aside My judgment? Will you condemn Me so that you may be justified?

For Jehovah of Hosts has purposed, and who shall reverse it? And His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

And your covenant with death shall be wiped out, and your vision with hell shall not stand; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, then you shall be beaten down by it.

For truly there is a putting away of the commandment which went before, because of the weakness and unprofitableness of it.

That it

Is the Law then against the promises of God? Let it not be said! For if a law had been given which could have given life, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.

God is not a man that He should lie, neither the son of man that He should repent. Has He said, and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken, and shall He not make it good?

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself,

None

you who are justified by Law are deprived of all effect from Christ; you fell from grace.

But if her husband did not allow 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 Jehovah shall forgive her.

Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He breaks the plots of the people.

For what? If some did not believe, will not their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

General references

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

Jehovah did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, all of us here, alive today.

as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed forever.