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Galatians 3:21 KJV
Galatians · chapter 3 · verse 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.Galatians 3:21 · King James Version
Galatians 3:21 in context
19Wherefore 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.
20Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
21Is 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.
22But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
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Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnessdikaiosynēin a broad sense state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition…G1343 →
- promisesepangeliaannouncement, promise, the act of promising, a promise given or to be given, a promised…G1860 →
- againstkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- forbidmēno, not lestG3361 →
- forbidginomaito becomeG1096 →
- verilyontōstruly, in reality, in point of fact, as opp. to what is pretended, fictitious, false…G3689 →
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The apostle having just before been speaking of the promise made to Abraham, and representing that as the rule of our justification, and not the law, lest they should think he did too much derogate from the law, and render it altogether useless, he thence takes occasion to discourse of the design and tendency of it,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-29