Galatians 3:21

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.

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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 a mediator of one, but God is one.

22But the scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Romans 3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

Romans 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Romans 9:31But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.

Galatians 2:17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

Galatians 2:21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead 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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