Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.

King James Version

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Holman Bible

The law, then, was our guardian until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith.

International Standard Version

And so the Law was our guardian until the Messiah came, so that we might be justified by faith.

A Conservative Version

So that the law became our schoolmaster for Christ, so that we might be made righteous from faith.

American Standard Version

So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Amplified

with the result that the Law has become our tutor and our disciplinarian to guide us to Christ, so that we may be justified [that is, declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing with God] by faith.

An Understandable Version

So, the law of Moses became like our "transportation to school," bringing us to [the school of] Christ where we [learn how to be] made right with God by faith [in Christ].

Anderson New Testament

So, then, the law was our pedagogue that led us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Bible in Basic English

So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

Common New Testament

So the law was our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Daniel Mace New Testament

so that the law was our school-master to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Darby Translation

So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith.

Godbey New Testament

Therefore the law became our schoolmaster to lead us to Christ, in order that we may be justified by faith;

Goodspeed New Testament

So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

John Wesley New Testament

Wherefore the law was our school-master unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Julia Smith Translation

So that the law was our preceptor towards Christ, that we might be justified from faith.

King James 2000

Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Lexham Expanded Bible

So then, the law became our guardian until Christ, in order that we could be justified by faith.

Modern King James verseion

So that the Law has become a trainer of us until Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster unto the time of Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

Moffatt New Testament

the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

Montgomery New Testament

So the Law has been our tutor-slave our pedagogue to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith;

NET Bible

Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

New Heart English Bible

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Noyes New Testament

So then the Law hath been our schoolmaster, to lead us to Christ, that we might be accepted as righteous through faith;

Sawyer New Testament

So that the law was our schoolmaster to lead to Christ, that we might be justified by faith;

The Emphasized Bible

So that, the law, hath proved, our tutor, training us, for Christ, in order that, by faith, we might be declared righteous;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Wherefore the law was our conductor, as of children, to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Thus the Law has proved a guide to lead us to Christ, in order that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith.

Webster

Wherefore the law was our school-master to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Weymouth New Testament

So that the Law has acted the part of a tutor-slave to lead us to Christ, in order that through faith we may be declared to be free from guilt.

Williams New Testament

So the law has been our attendant to lead us to Christ, so that we might through faith obtain right standing with God.

World English Bible

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Worrell New Testament

So that the law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Worsley New Testament

So that the law was our guide to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Youngs Literal Translation

so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ὥστε 
hoste 
Usage: 72

the law
νόμος 
Nomos 
law
Usage: 179

was
γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

our
ἡμῶν 
hemon 
our, us, we, not tr,
Usage: 388

παιδαγωγός 
Paidagogos 
Usage: 3

to bring us unto
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557

ἵνα 
Hina 
that, to,
Usage: 472

δικαιόω 
Dikaioo 
Usage: 35

by
ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

Devotionals

Devotionals about Galatians 3:24

Images Galatians 3:24

Prayers for Galatians 3:24

Questions on Galatians 3:24

Context Readings

The Addition Of The Law

23 But before faith came, we were under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. 25 But when faith is come, we are no longer under the hand of the schoolmaster.

Cross References

Galatians 2:16

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Romans 10:4

For Christ is the end of the law, to give righteousness to every one that believes.

Colossians 2:17

which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of the Christ.

Matthew 5:17-18

Think not that I am come to undo the law or the prophets; I am not come to undo, but to fulfil.

Acts 13:38-39

Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this one is preached unto you the remission of sins;

Romans 3:20-22

For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:7-9

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for neither would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet.

Romans 7:24-25

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though ye may have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye shall not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

Galatians 3:25

But when faith is come, we are no longer under the hand of the schoolmaster.

Galatians 4:2-3

but is under the hand of tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

Hebrews 7:18-19

For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness of it;

Hebrews 9:8-16

The Holy Spirit signifying in this, that the way into the sanctuary was not yet made manifest, as long as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

Hebrews 10:1-14

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never make perfect those who come by the same sacrifices which they offer year by year continually.

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