And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed my command.’
John 1:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised for the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For while the Law was given through Moses, grace (unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ. [Exod. 20:1.] American Standard Version (1901) For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Common English Bible as the Law was given through Moses, so grace and truth came into being through Jesus Christ. Catholic Public Domain Version For the law was given though Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. |
And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed my command.’
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
You will show loyalty to Jacob and faithful love to Abraham, as you swore to our ancestors from days long ago.
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jesus told him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
‘You are a king then? ’ Pilate asked. ‘You say that I’m a king,’ Jesus replied. ‘I was born for this, and I have come into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.’
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me? ’
We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man #– #we don’t know where he’s from.’
After arranging a day with him, many came to him at his lodging. From dawn to dusk he expounded and testified about the kingdom of God. He tried to persuade them about Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
He is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors. He received living oracles to give to us.
For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.
For every one of God’s promises is ‘Yes’ in him. Therefore, through him we also say ‘Amen’ to the glory of God.
My point is this: The law, which came 430 years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously established by God and thus cancel the promise.
Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, ‘Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully.
According to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.