Then what about the law? It was added later on to increase transgressions, until the descendant to whom the promise was made should come, enacted through the agency of angels in the person of an intermediary.

I mean this: As long as the heir is under age he is not a whit better off than a slave, although he is heir of all the property,

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Under

but when the proper time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to law,

But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law.

Now we know that everything the law says is spoken to those who are under its authority, that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world be held responsible to God.

For sin must not any longer exert its mastery over you, for now you are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor.

To the Jews I have become like a Jew for the winning of Jews; to men under the law, like one under the law, though I am not under the law myself, to win the men under the law;

The faith

Then He turned to His disciples when they were alone, and said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you are seeing.

These people all died victoriously as a result of their faith, although they did not receive the blessings promised; that is, because they really saw them in the far-off future and welcomed them, and so professed to be only foreigners and strangers here on earth.

earnestly trying to find out the time, and the nature of the times, which the Spirit of the Christ within them pointed to, in foretelling the sufferings of the Christ and the glory that should follow them.