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Galatians 3:15-17
Complete Jewish Bible
Galatians 3:15-17
Complete Jewish Bible
15 Brothers, let me make an analogy from everyday life: when someone swears an oath, no one else can set it aside or add to it. 16 Now the promises were made to Avraham and to his seed. It doesn’t say, “and to seeds,” as if to many; on the contrary, it speaks of one — “and to your seed”[a] — and this “one” is the Messiah. 17 Here is what I am saying: the legal part of the Torah, which came into being 430 years later, does not nullify an oath sworn by God, so as to abolish the promise.
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- Galatians 3:16 Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 17:7; 24:7
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