Galatians 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, ¹  so as to invalidate the promise.

Ge 15:13; Ge 15:18; Ge 17:7,8,19; Ex 12:40,41; Nu 23:19; Nu 30:8; Job 40:8; Ps 33:10; Isa 14:27; Isa 28:18; Lu 1:68-79; Joh 1:17; Joh 8:56-58; Ac 7:6; Ro 3:3; Ro 3:25; Ro 4:13,14; 1Co 1:12; 1Co 1:17; 1Co 7:29; 1Co 10:19; 2Co 1:20; 2Co 9:6; Ga 3:15; Ga 3:21; Ga 5:4; Ga 5:16; Eph 4:17; Col 2:4; Heb 6:13-18; Heb 7:18; Heb 11:13,17-19,39,40; 1Pe 1:11,12,20

¹ 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.