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Galatians 3:21

So is the law against the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by 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 implies more than one person, but God is one.

22But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin. God did this so that the promise to save us by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have come not to destroy them, but to fulfill them.

Romans 3:6May it never be! For then how would God judge the world?

Romans 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! Instead, we uphold the law.

Romans 9:31But Israel, who did pursue a law of righteousness, did not arrive at it.

Galatians 2:17But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we too, were found to be sinners, does Christ then promote sin? Absolutely not!

Galatians 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

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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