Galatians 3:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore 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.

Then

Romans 3:1

Romans 7:7

It was added

Till

Galatians 3:16

Galatians 4:1

By

Deuteronomy 33:2

Acts 7:53

Hebrews 2:2

General references

Deuteronomy 5:3

Bible References

Then

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

It was added

Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.

If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.

For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

We are conscious that the law is good, if a man makes a right use of it,

Till

Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

By

He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.

You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.

Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

General references

The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today.