Galatians 3:17 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁷ My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise.

⁶⁸ "Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, for he has cared for his people and wrought them redemption; ⁶⁹ he has raised up a strong saviour for us in the house of his servant David ⁷⁰ as he promised of old by the lips of his prophets ⁷¹ to save us from our foes and from the hand of all who hate us, ⁷² to deal mercifully with our fathers and to be mindful of his holy covenant, ⁷³ of the oath he swore to Abraham our father, ⁷⁴ that freed from fear and from the hand of our foes we should worship him ⁷⁵ in holiness and uprightness all our days within his presence. ⁷⁶ And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready, ⁷⁷ to bring his people the knowledge of salvation through the remission of their sins ⁷⁸ by the tender mercy of our God, who will make the Dawn visit us from on high, ⁷⁹ to shine on those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our steps into the way of peace."

¹⁷ while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham exulted that he was to see my Day: he did see it and he rejoiced." ⁵⁷ Then said the Jews to him, "You are not fifty years old, and Abraham has seen you?" ⁵⁸ "Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."

⁶ What God said was this: 'His offspring will sojourn in a foreign land, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

³ Even supposing some of them have proved untrustworthy, is their faithlessness to cancel the faithfulness of God?

²⁵ whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;

¹³ The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if it is adherents of the Law who are heirs, then faith is empty of all meaning and the promise is void.

¹² By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ."

¹⁷ Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

²⁹ I mean, brothers, — the interval has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

¹⁹ Do I imply, you ask, that 'food offered to an idol has any meaning, or that an idol itself means any thing'?

²⁰ for in him is the 'yes' that affirms all the promises of God. Hence it is through him that we affirm our 'amen' in worship, to the glory of God.

⁶ Mark this: he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows generously will reap a generous harvest.

¹⁵ To take an illustration from human life, my brothers. Once a man's will is ratified, no one else annuls it or adds a codicil to it.

²¹ Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,

⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

¹⁶ I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh.

¹⁷ Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

⁴ I say this to prevent you from being deluded by plausible arguments from anybody;

¹³ For in making a promise to Abraham God swore by himself (since he could swear by none greater), ¹⁴ I will indeed bless you and multiply you. ¹⁵ Thus it was that Abraham by his stedfastness obtained what he had been promised. ¹⁶ For as men swear by a greater than themselves, and as an oath means to them a guarantee that ends any dispute, ¹⁷ God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath; ¹⁸ so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us,

¹⁸ A previous command is set aside on account of its weakness and uselessness

¹³ (These all died in faith without obtaining the promises; they only saw them far away and hailed them, owning they were 'strangers and exiles upon earth.'

¹⁷ It was by faith, when Abraham was put to the test, that he sacrificed Isaac, he was ready to sacrifice his only son, although he had received the promises ¹⁸ and had been told that it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned — ¹⁹ for he considered that God was able even to raise men from the dead. Hence he did get him back, by what was a parable of the resurrection.

³⁹ They all won their record for faith, but the Promise they did not obtain. ⁴⁰ God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

¹¹ the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come; ¹² to them it was revealed that they got this intelligence not for themselves but for you, regarding all that has now been disclosed to you by those who preached the gospel to you through the holy Spirit sent from heaven. The very angels long to get a glimpse of this!

²⁰ He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake;