Galatians 3:24

So, then, the law was our pedagogue that led us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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

23But before the faith came, we were kept under law, being shut up to the faith which was to be revealed.

25But since the faith has come, we are no longer under a pedagogue:

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Cross References

Acts 13:38Be it known to you, therefore, brethren, that through this man is preached to you the remission of sins:

Romans 7:7What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire.

Romans 10:4For Christ is the end of the law for justification, to every one that believes.

Galatians 2:16knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed on Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of law: because, by works of law no flesh shall be justified.

Galatians 3:25But since the faith has come, we are no longer under a pedagogue:

Colossians 2:17which things are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is in Christ,

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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