The Law Did Not Nullify the Promise. 15^* Brothers, in human terms I say that no one can annul or amend even a human will once ratified.ⁿ 16Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his descendant.^* It does not say, “And to descendants,” as referring to many, but as referring to one, “And to your descendant,” who is Christ.^o 17This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward,^* does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise.^p 18For if the inheritance comes from the law,^q it is no longer from a promise; but God bestowed it on Abraham through a promise.^*

19^* Why, then, the law? It was added for transgressions, until the descendant^* came to whom the promise had been made; it was promulgated by angels at the hand of a mediator.^r 20Now there is no mediator when only one party is involved, and God is one.^s

31^* What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?^x 32He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him?^y 33Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us.^z 34Who will condemn? It is Christ [Jesus] who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.^a 35What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? 36As it is written:^b

“For your sake we are being slain all the day;

we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us.^c 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things,^* nor future things, nor powers,^d 39nor height, nor depth,^* nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.