Galatians 3:21
Does that set the Law in opposition to God’s promises? Heaven forbid! For, if a Law had been given capable of bestowing life, then righteousness would have actually owed its existence to Law.
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In Context
20Now mediation implies more than one person, but God is one only.
Cross References
Matthew 5:17“Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law or the prophets; I have not come to do away with them, but to complete them.
Romans 3:6Otherwise how can God judge the world?
Romans 3:31Do we, then, use this faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish Law.
Romans 9:31while Israel, which was in search of a Law which would ensure righteousness, failed to discover one.
Galatians 2:17If, while seeking to be pronounced righteous through union with Christ, we were ourselves seen to be sinners, would that make Christ an agent of sin? Heaven forbid!
Galatians 2:21I do not reject the love of God. If righteousness comes through Law, then there was no need for Christ to die!
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 →