Galatians 3:24
So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
In Context
25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Cross References
Acts 13:38Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins;
Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 10:4For Christ is the fulfilment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Galatians 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
Galatians 3:25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Colossians 2:17which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
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 →