And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.

Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it is but a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no man disannulleth or addeth to it.

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

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that heard him;

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: