Galatians 3:21

Is the law, then, against the promises of God? It can not be. For if a law had been given which could have given life, surely righteousness would have been by law.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

20Now, a mediator for one is impossible; but God is one.

22But the scripture has shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Christ Jesus may be given to those who believe.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Think not that I have come to make the law or the prophets of no effect. I have not come to make them of no effect, but to give them their full efficiency.

Romans 3:6It can not be: for if so, how shall God judge the world?

Romans 3:31Do we, then, make law void through the faith? It can not be. On the other hand, we establish law.

Romans 9:31but Israel, who sought after a law of justification, has not attained to a law of justification.

Galatians 2:17But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are also found sinners, is Christ, therefore, the minister of sin? It can not be.

Galatians 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God: for if righteousness be through law, then Christ has died in vain.

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 →

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