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

What, then, is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

It was added

the law, then, is against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

Do not think that I will accuse you unto the Father; there is who is accusing you, Moses -- in whom ye have hoped;

if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

for not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.

And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

and we have known that the law is good, if any one may use it lawfully;

Till

and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,

By

and he saith: -- 'Jehovah from Sinai hath come, And hath risen from Seir for them; He hath shone from mount Paran, And hath come with myriads of holy ones; At His right hand are springs for them.

who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep it.'

for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

General references

not with our fathers hath Jehovah made this covenant, but with us; we -- these -- here to-day -- all of us alive.