Galatians 3:21

Then was the law against the promises of God? it could not be so. For if the law was given being able to create life, truly justification would have been by law:

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

20A mediator is not of one; but God is one.

22but the scripture has shut up all things unto sin, in order that the promise through faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those who believe.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Think not that I came to destroy the law of the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.

Romans 3:6It could not be so: then how will God judge the world?

Romans 3:31Then do we make void the law through faith? It could not be so: but we establish the law.

Romans 9:31but Israel, following after the law, did not attain unto the law of righteousness.

Galatians 2:17But if seeking to be justified in Christ, we may also be found sinners, then is Christ the minister of sin? it could not be so.

Galatians 2:21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness was through law, then Christ died gratuitiously.

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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