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Galatians 3:23

Before that fayth cam, we were kept and shut vp vnder the lawe, vnto the fayth which shuld afterwarde be declared.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

In Context

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

24Wherfore the lawe was oure scolemaster vnto the tyme of Christ that we might be made rightewes by fayth.

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Cross References

Romans 3:19Ye and we knowe that whatsoever the lawe sayth he sayth it to them which are vnder the lawe. That all mouthes maye be stopped and all the worlde be subdued to god because that by the dedes of the lawe shall no flesshe be iustified in the sight of God.

Romans 11:32God hath wrapped all nacions in vnbeleve that he myght have mercie on all.

Galatians 3:19Wherfore then serveth the lawe? The lawe was added because of transgression (tyll the seed cam to which the promes was made) and it was ordeyned by angels in the honde of a mediator.

Galatians 4:1And I saye that the heyre as longe as he is a chylde differth not from a servaunt though he be Lorde of all

Galatians 5:18But and yf ye be ledde of the sprete then are ye not vnder the lawe.

Hebrews 11:39And these all thorow fayth obtayned good reporte and receaved not the promes

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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