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Galatians 3:24 KJV
Galatians · chapter 3 · verse 24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.Galatians 3:24 · King James Version
Galatians 3:24 in context
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.
24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
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Key words (Strong's)
- schoolmasterpaidagōgosa tutorG3807 →
- justifieddikaioōto render righteous or such he ought to be, to show, exhibit, evince, one to be…G1344 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- lawnomosanything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command, of any law…G3551 →
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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