To what end then was the Law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise belongeth, having been ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth in no respect from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

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

Under

but when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

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

Now we know that whatever the Law saith, it saith to those who are under the Law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become subject to condemnation before God.

For sin shall not hold dominion over you; for ye are not under the Law, but under grace.

and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under the Law, as under the Law, not being myself under the Law, that I might gain those under the Law;

The faith

And turning to the disciples, he said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye are seeing.

These all died in faith, not having received the promised blessings, but having seen them from afar, and greeted them, and having professed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them signified, when it testified beforehand the sufferings to come upon Christ, and the glories that were to follow;