Galatians 3:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now a mediator involves more than one party, but God is one.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now a go-between (intermediary) has to do with and implies more than one party [there can be no mediator with just one person]. Yet God is [only] one Person [and He was the sole party in giving that promise to Abraham. But the Law was a contract between two, God and Israel; its validity was dependent on both].

American Standard Version (1901)

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one.

Common English Bible

Now the mediator does not take one side; but God is one.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now a mediator is not of one, yet God is one.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now a mediator is not of one: but God is one.

Galatians 3:20 Cross References

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,

Job 9:33

There is no mediator between us, who might lay his hand on us both.

Acts 12:20

Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him in a body, and after winning over Blastus, the king’s personal attendant, they asked for a reconciliation, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

Deuteronomy 6:4

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human,

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 8:6

But Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on the basis of better promises.

Hebrews 9:15

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.