Galatians 3:17
Greek Text— Galatians 3:17Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
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For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.
Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”
For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you; and I will not come in wrath.
You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
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?
But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.
But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.
Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.