Galatians 3:21

[Is] then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;

Darby Translation

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

20But a mediator is not of one, but God is one.

22but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Think not that I am come to make void the law or the prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.

Romans 3:6Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

Romans 3:31Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: [no,] but we establish law.

Romans 9:31But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to [that] law.

Galatians 2:17Now if in seeking to be justified in Christ we also have been found sinners, then [is] Christ minister of sin? Far be the thought.

Galatians 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness [is] by law, then Christ has died for nothing.

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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