Galatians 3:17

New Century Version

This is what I mean: God had an agreement with Abraham and promised to keep it. The law, which came four hundred thirty years later, cannot change that agreement and so destroy God’s promise to Abraham.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers and travel in a land they don’t own. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

Genesis 15:18

So on that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram and said, “I will give to your descendants the land between the river of Egypt and the great river Euphrates.

Genesis 17:19

God said, “No, Sarah your wife will have a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him to be an agreement that continues forever with all his descendants.

Job 40:8

Would you say that I am unfair? Would you blame me to make yourself look right?

Psalm 105:9

He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and the promise he made to Isaac.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord upsets the plans of nations; he ruins all their plans.

Isaiah 14:27

When the Lord All-Powerful makes a plan, no one can stop it. When the Lord raises his hand to punish people, no one can stop it.

Isaiah 28:18

Your agreement with death will be erased; your contract with death will not help you. When terrible punishment comes, you will be crushed by it.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a human being, and he will not lie. He is not a human, and he does not change his mind. What he says he will do, he does. What he promises, he makes come true.

Numbers 30:8

But if her husband hears about it and does not allow it, he cancels her pledge or the careless promise she made. The Lord will free her from keeping it.

John 1:17

The law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Acts 7:6

This is what God said to him: ‘Your descendants will be strangers in a land they don’t own. The people there will make them slaves and will mistreat them for four hundred years.

Romans 3:25

God sent him to die in our place to take away our sins. We receive forgiveness through faith in the blood of Jesus’ death. This showed that God always does what is right and fair, as in the past when he was patient and did not punish people for their sins.

Romans 3:3

If some Jews were not faithful to him, will that stop God from doing what he promised?

1 Corinthians 1:12

This is what I mean: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another says, “I follow Apollos”; another says, “I follow Peter”; and another says, “I follow Christ.”

1 Corinthians 1:17

Christ did not send me to baptize people but to preach the Good News. And he sent me to preach the Good News without using words of human wisdom so that the cross of Christ would not lose its power.

1 Corinthians 10:19

I do not mean that the food sacrificed to an idol is important. I do not mean that an idol is anything at all.

1 Corinthians 7:29

Brothers and sisters, this is what I mean: We do not have much time left. So starting now, those who have wives should live as if they had no wives.

2 Corinthians 1:20

The yes to all of God’s promises is in Christ, and through Christ we say yes to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 9:6

Remember this: The person who plants a little will have a small harvest, but the person who plants a lot will have a big harvest.

Galatians 3:15

Brothers and sisters, let us think in human terms: Even an agreement made between two persons is firm. After that agreement is accepted by both people, no one can stop it or add anything to it.

Galatians 3:21

Does this mean that the law is against God’s promises? Never! That would be true only if the law could make us right with God. But God did not give a law that can bring life.

Galatians 5:16

So I tell you: Live by following the Spirit. Then you will not do what your sinful selves want.

Galatians 5:4

If you try to be made right with God through the law, your life with Christ is over—you have left God’s grace.

Ephesians 2:12

Remember that in the past you were without Christ. You were not citizens of Israel, and you had no part in the agreements with the promise that God made to his people. You had no hope, and you did not know God.

Ephesians 4:17

In the Lord’s name, I tell you this. Do not continue living like those who do not believe. Their thoughts are worth nothing.

Colossians 2:4

I say this so that no one can fool you by arguments that seem good, but are false.

Hebrews 11:13

All these great people died in faith. They did not get the things that God promised his people, but they saw them coming far in the future and were glad. They said they were like visitors and strangers on earth.

Hebrews 7:18

The old rule is now set aside, because it was weak and useless.

1 Peter 1:20

Christ was chosen before the world was made, but he was shown to the world in these last times for your sake.