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The Law Served To Lead Us To Faith In Christ So As To Inherit The Abrahamic Promises

21 Is the Law then against the promises of God? May it never be! For if a Law being able to give-life had been given, righteousness really would have been by the Law! 22 But the Scripture confined all things under[a] sin, in order that the promise by faith[b] in Jesus Christ might be given to the ones believing. 23 And before the faith[c] came, we were being kept-in-custody[d] under the Law— being confined until[e] the faith destined to be revealed.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:22 That is, under its power and consequence.
  2. Galatians 3:22 Or, by the faithfulness of Jesus (to what God sent Him to do).
  3. Galatians 3:23 That is, the faith just mentioned. Or, faith.
  4. Galatians 3:23 Or, guarded.
  5. Galatians 3:23 Or, to, for.

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