Galatians 3:21

Is the law then opposed to the promise of God? Far be it. For if a law had been given, which could make alive, certainly, righteousness would have been by the law.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 is not of one; but God is one.

22But the scripture hath inclosed all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus the Messiah might be given to them that believe.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Do not suppose that I have come to subvert the law or the prophets: I have come not to subvert, but to fulfill.

Romans 3:6Far from it. Otherwise how will God judge the world?

Romans 3:31Do, we then nullify the law by faith? Far be it. On the contrary, we establish the law.

Romans 9:31But Israel, who ran after the law of righteousness, hath not found the law of righteousness.

Galatians 2:17And if, while we seek to become just by the Messiah, we are found to be ourselves sinners, is Jesus the Messiah therefore the minister of sin? Far be it!

Galatians 2:21I do not spurn the grace of God. For if righteousness is by means of the law, the Messiah 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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