Galatians 3:21

So then, was the law contrary to the promises of God? Let it not be so! For if a law had been given, which was able to give life, truly justice would be of the law.

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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 is not of one, yet God is one.

22But Scripture has enclosed everything under sin, so that the promise, by the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill.

Romans 3:6(I am speaking in human terms.) Let it not be so! Otherwise, how would God judge this world?

Romans 3:31Are we then destroying the law through faith? Let it not be so! Instead, we are making the law stand.

Romans 9:31Yet truly, Israel, though following the law of justice, has not arrived at the law of justice.

Galatians 2:17But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are also found to be sinners, would then Christ be the minister of sin? Let it not be so!

Galatians 2:21I do not reject the grace of God. For if justice is through the law, then Christ 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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