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

God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.

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

But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would

be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Cannot

Brethren, I speak in terms of human relations: even though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it.

“Will you really annul My judgment?
Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?

For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?”

“Your covenant with death will be

canceled,

And your pact with Sheol will not stand;
When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
Then you become its trampling place.

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

That it

Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.

“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent;

Has He said, and will He not do it?

Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

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

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

None

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

But if on the day her husband hears of it, he forbids her, then he shall annul her vow which she is under and the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself; and the Lord will forgive her.

The Lord

nullifies the counsel of the nations;

He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

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

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

General references

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

The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all those of us alive here today.

As He spoke to our fathers,

To Abraham and his descendants forever.”