What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own,
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but throu
Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.
When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be e
Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge
But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenan
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of E
Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I fol
All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcom
God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because
But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has ma
Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”
Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, the
The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless
trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the suffer
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does H
He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer
What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of th
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your Go
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.