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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20Now a mediator implies more than one person, but God is one.
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 →