Galatians 3:15 - New Revised Standard Version Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person's will has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To speak in terms of human relations, brethren, [if] even a man makes a last will and testament (a merely human covenant), no one sets it aside or makes it void or adds to it when once it has been drawn up and signed (ratified, confirmed). American Standard Version (1901) Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto. Common English Bible Brothers and sisters, I’ll use an example from human experience. No one ignores or makes additions to a validated will. Catholic Public Domain Version Brothers (I speak according to man), if a man's testament has been confirmed, no one would reject it or add to it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Brethren (I speak after the manner of man,) yet a man's testament, if it be confirmed, no man despiseth, nor addeth to it. |
In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said,
I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.
But if our injustice serves to confirm the justice of God, what should we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
If with merely human hopes I fought with wild animals at Ephesus, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.
When God made a promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
Human beings, of course, swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath given as confirmation puts an end to all dispute.
For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.