Galatians 3:18-20

EasyEnglish Bible

¹⁸ God has promised to give good things to his children. But that does not happen as a result of God's Law. If that were true, then we would not receive God's good things as a result of his promise. But God gave those good things to Abraham as a gift, because he had promised to bless Abraham.

The purpose of God's Law

¹⁹ So we could ask: Why did God give his Law to his people after his promise to Abraham? He gave his Law to show them which things are wrong. It would have authority until Abraham's special descendant would come. That was the descendant that God had promised to bless. God used angels to give his Law to his people.^[a] It was Moses who received the Law from God, and Moses then took it to God's people. ²⁰ But God himself gave his promise to Abraham. It was not necessary to have somebody in between, like Moses.