Galatians 3:21

Ys the lawe then agaynst the promes of God? God forbid. How be it yf ther had bene a lawe geve which coulde have geven lyfe: then no doute rightewesnes shuld have come by the lawe.

Tyndale New Testament

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

20A mediator is not a mediator of one. But God is one.

22But the scripture concluded all thinges vnder synne that the promes by the fayth of Iesus Christ shuld be geve vnto them that beleve.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Thinke not that I am come to destroye the lawe or the Prophets: no I am nott come to destroye them but to fulfyll them.

Romans 3:6God forbid. For how then shall God iudge the worlde?

Romans 3:31Do we then destroye the lawe thorow fayth? God forbid. But we rather mayntayne the lawe.

Romans 9:31But Israel which folowed the lawe of rightewesnes coulde not attayne vnto the lawe of rightewesnes.

Galatians 2:17Yf then whill we seke to be made rightewes by Christ we oure selves are founde synners is not then Christ the minister of synne? God forbyd.

Galatians 2:21I despyse not the grace of God. For if rightewesnes come of the lawe then Christ dyed in vayne.

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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