Isaiah 14:27

14:27 Indeed, ¹  the Lord who commands armies has a plan,

and who can possibly frustrate it?

His hand is ready to strike,

and who can possibly stop it? ² 

Isaiah 28:18

28:18 Your treaty with death will be dissolved; ³ 

your agreement ⁴  with Sheol will not last. ⁵ 

When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, ⁶ 

you will be overrun by it. ⁷ 

Galatians 3:15

Inheritance Comes from Promises and not Law

3:15 Brothers and sisters, ⁸  I offer an example from everyday life: ⁹  When a covenant ¹⁰  has been ratified, ¹¹  even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.

Galatians 3:17

3:17 What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, ¹²  so as to invalidate the promise.

Hebrews 7:18

7:18 On the one hand a former command is set aside ¹³  because it is weak and useless, ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Or “For” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

² tn Heb “His hand is outstretched and who will turn it back?”

³ tn On the meaning of כָּפַר (kafar) in this context, see HALOT 494 s.v. I כפר and J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:515, n. 9.

⁴ tn Normally the noun חָזוּת (khazut) means “vision.” See the note at v. 15.

⁵ tn Or “will not stand” (NIV, NRSV).

⁶ tn See the note at v. 15.

⁷ tn Heb “you will become a trampling place for it.”

⁸ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:11.

⁹ tn Grk “I speak according to man,” referring to the illustration that follows.

¹⁰ tn The same Greek word, διαθήκη (diaqhkh), can mean either “covenant” or “will,” but in this context the former is preferred here because Paul is discussing in vv. 16-18 the Abrahamic covenant.

¹¹ tn Or “has been put into effect.”

¹² tc Most mss (D F G I 0176 0278 Ï it sy) read “ratified by God in Christ” whereas the omission of “in Christ” is the reading in Ì⁴⁶ א A B C P Ψ 6 33 81 1175 1739 1881 2464 pc co. The shorter reading is strongly supported by the ms evidence, and it is probable that a copyist inserted the words as an interpretive gloss. However, this form of the “in Christ” expression is somewhat atypical in the corpus Paulinum (εἰς Χριστόν [ei" Criston] rather than ἐν Χριστῷ [en Cristw]), a fact which tempers one’s certainty about the shorter reading. Nevertheless, the expression is used more in Galatians than in any other of Paul’s letters (Gal 2:16; 3:24, 27), and may have been suggested by such texts to early copyists.

¹³ tn Grk “the setting aside of a former command comes to pass.”

¹⁴ tn Grk “because of its weakness and uselessness.”