Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of all the estate;

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Under

But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews; to those under the law I became as one under the lawthough not being myself under the lawso that I might win those under the law.

The faith

Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see what you see.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.