Galatians 3:19
Why then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, until the seed would come to whom it was promised, which was arranged through heavenly agents in the hand of a mediator.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
20Now a mediator is not of one, but God is one.
Cross References
Exodus 20:19And they said to Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Exodus 34:27And LORD said to Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:8And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Deuteronomy 5:22These words LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tablets of stone, and gave them to
Deuteronomy 9:25So I fell down before LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because LORD had said he would destroy you.
Deuteronomy 33:2And he said, LORD came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shined forth from mount Paran, and he came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 3:7-19
Justification by Faith. ( a. d. 56.) 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is… Read the whole commentary →