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 descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

That it

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.

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?

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.

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

None

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

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.

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

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

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

On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.

He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

as he promised to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever."