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,
Galatians 3:20 - Revised Standard Version Now an intermediary implies more than one; but God is one. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
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,
Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and they came to him in a body, and having persuaded Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.
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.
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.