Galatians 3:21

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been 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 [a mediator] of one; but God is one.

22But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.

Romans 3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

Romans 3:31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

Romans 9:31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law.

Galatians 2:17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

Galatians 2:21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

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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