Galatians 3:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

Galatians 3:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 9:17
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Romans 6:19
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?(I speak as a man)
1 Corinthians 15:32
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-18)

The apostle having reproved the Galatians for not obeying the truth, and endeavoured to impress them with a sense of their folly herein, in these verses he largely proves the doctrine which he had reproved them for rejecting, namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does several ways. I. From the example of Abraham’s justification. This argument the apostle uses…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. I speak after the manner of men--I take an illustration from a merely human transaction of everyday occurrence. but a man’s covenant--whose purpose it is far less important to maintain. if it be confirmed--when once it hath been ratified. no man disannulleth--“none setteth aside,” not even the author himself, much less any second party. None does so who acts in common equity. Much less would t…