Galatians 3:24
So that the law became our schoolmaster for Christ, so that we might be made righteous from faith.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
In Context
25But faith having come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Cross References
Acts 13:38Be it known to you therefore, men, brothers, that through this man remission of sins is proclaimed to you.
Romans 7:7What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.
Romans 10:4For Christ is the end of law for righteousness, to every man who believes.
Galatians 2:16knowing that a man is not made righteous from works of law, instead through faith of Jesus Christ. And we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made righteous from faith of Christ, and not from works of law, because no fles
Galatians 3:25But faith having come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Colossians 2:17which are a shadow of the things coming, but the body is Christ's.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 3:20-29
Design of the Law; The True Children of Abraham. ( a. d. 56.) 19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. 22 But the scripture hath concluded… Read the whole commentary →