Galatians 3:17 - Revised Standard Version

¹⁷ This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ This is my argument: The Law, which began 430 years after the covenant [concerning the coming Messiah], does not and cannot annul the covenant previously established (ratified) by God, so as to abolish the promise and make it void. [Exod. 12:40.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ I’m saying this: the Law, which came four hundred thirty years later, doesn’t invalidate the agreement that was previously validated by God so that it cancels the promise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ But I say this: the testament confirmed by God, which, after four hundred and thirty years became the Law, does not nullify, so as to make the promise empty.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Now this I say, that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years, doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect.

Galatians 3:17 Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years;

Genesis 15:18

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

Genesis 17:19

God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasing covenant for his descendants after him.

Job 40:8

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?

Psalm 105:9

the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to naught; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Isaiah 14:27

For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Isaiah 28:18

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through you will be beaten down by it.

Numbers 23:19

God is not man, that he should lie, or 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 fulfil it?

Numbers 30:8

But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he expresses disapproval, then he shall make void her vow which was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips, by which she bound herself; and the Lord will forgive her.

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Acts 7:6

And God spoke to this effect, that his posterity would be aliens in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and ill-treat them four hundred years.

Romans 3:25

whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins;

Romans 3:3

What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

1 Corinthians 1:12

What I mean is that each one of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”

1 Corinthians 1:17

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

1 Corinthians 10:19

What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

1 Corinthians 7:29

I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; from now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,

2 Corinthians 1:20

For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 9:6

The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Galatians 3:15

To give a human example, brethren: no one annuls even a man's will, or adds to it, once it has been ratified.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Galatians 5:4

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 4:17

Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;

Colossians 2:4

I say this in order that no one may delude you with beguiling speech.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith, not having received what was promised, but having seen it and greeted it from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Hebrews 7:18

On the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness

1 Peter 1:20

He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake.