Galatians 3:21

Is the law therefore against the promise of Aloha? Impossible: for if a law had been given which could make to live, certainly righteousness would have been by the law.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

20But a Mediator is not of one; but Aloha is one.

22But the scripture hath included all under sin, that the promise through faith of Jeshu Meshiha might be given to them who believe.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Think not that I came to loose the law or the prophets: not that I might loose, but that I might fulfill.

Romans 3:6Not so; otherwise how shall Aloha judge the world?

Romans 3:31Do we therefore the law abolish by faith? Not so, but the law itself we establish.

Romans 9:31but Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, unto the law of righteousness have not attained.

Galatians 2:17---If, while we seek to be justified through the Meshiha, we also ourselves are found sinners, is Jeshu Meshiha therefore the minister of sin? It cannot be.

Galatians 2:21I do not deny the grace of Aloha; for if righteousness is by the law, the Meshiha died in vain!

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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