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The Promise to Abraham

15 Brothers and sisters,[a] I give an example from daily life: once a person’s will[b] has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it. 16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring;[c] it does not say, ‘And to offsprings’,[d] as of many; but it says, ‘And to your offspring’,[e] that is, to one person, who is Christ. 17 My point is this: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:15 Gk Brothers
  2. Galatians 3:15 Or covenant (as in verse 17)
  3. Galatians 3:16 Gk seed
  4. Galatians 3:16 Gk seeds
  5. Galatians 3:16 Gk seed

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