Galatians 3:21

Is the Torah, mimeila (consequently, as a result), against the havtachot (promises) of Hashem? Chas v'Shalom (G-d forbid)! For if Gezetz had been given that had the ko'ach (power) to affect hitkhadshut (regeneration), then to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM (justified with G-d) would indeed have been based on ma'asim of Gezetz.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 the metavech is not for only one, but Elohim hu echad. + 3:20 Dt 6:4

22But the Kitvei HaKodesh consigned all things under HaChet (Sin), + 3:22 Dt 27:26 that the havtachah (promise) might be given by emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua to the ma'aminim.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Do not think that I came to abolish the Torah or the Neviim. I did not come to abolish but to complete.

Romans 3:6Chas v'shalom! (G-d forbid!) For then how could Hashem be HaShofet kol ha'Aretz? + 3:6 Gn 18:25

Romans 3:31Does it follow that we abolish Torah and make it invalid through emunah? Chas v'shalom! Aderaba (to the contrary), we uphold the Torah. + 3:31 See Ro 4:3; 8:4; Ac 21:26

Romans 9:31Whereas Yisroel pursuing a + 9:31 supposed zokheh-earning Tzidkat Torah did not arrive at that Torah?

Galatians 2:17Now, if, by seeking to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM in Moshiach, we ourselves were found also to be chote'im (sinners), + 2:17 2:15; Ro 3:9,23 then in that case is Moshiach a kohen for iniquity, a minister serving sin? Chas v'Shalom (G-d forbid)!

Galatians 2:21I do not set aside the Chen v'Chesed Hashem; for if the MAH (how) an ENOSH (man) is to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM + 2:21 Job 25:4 is found through Gezetz chumra, then Moshiach died for nothing and L'TOHU (in vain). + 2:21 Isa 49:4; 65:23

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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