Galatians 3:18 · KJV
“For if the inheritance {be} of the law, {it is} no more of promise: but God gave {it} to Abraham by promise.”
— Galatians 3:18
And this I say, {that} the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
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.
Galatians 3 — Context
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
17And this I say, {that} the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18For if the inheritance {be} of the law, {it is} no more of promise: but God gave {it} to Abraham by promise.
19Wherefore 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.
20Now a mediator is not {a mediator} of one, but God is one.
Cross References
Romans 4:13-16
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, {was} not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Hebrews 6:12-15
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness {come} by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Psalms 105:42
For he remembered his holy promise, {and} Abraham his servant.
Psalms 105:6-12
O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
Romans 8:17
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with {him}, that we may be also glorified together.
Galatians 3:29
And if ye {be} Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Luke 1:72-73
To perform the mercy {promised} to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;