Galatians:3:15-25
dby@Galatians:3:15 @ Brethren, (I speak according to man,) even man's confirmed covenant no one sets aside, or adds other dispositions to.
dby@Galatians:3:16 @ But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ.
dby@Galatians:3:17 @ Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
dby@Galatians:3:18 @ For if the inheritance [be] on the principle of law, [it is] no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in grace to Abraham by promise.
dby@Galatians:3:19 @ Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in [the] hand of a mediator.
dby@Galatians:3:20 @ But a mediator is not of one, but God is one.
dby@Galatians:3:21 @ [Is] then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;
dby@Galatians:3:22 @ but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.
dby@Galatians:3:23 @ But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith [which was] about to be revealed.
dby@Galatians:3:24 @ So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith.
dby@Galatians:3:25 @ But, faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor;