"{Is} the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life…" — Galatians 3:21

Galatians 3:21 · KJV

“{Is} the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.”

— Galatians 3:21

Verse 20

Now a mediator is not {a mediator} of one, but God is one.

Verse 22

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Galatians 3 — Context

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.

Now a mediator is not {a mediator} of one, but God is one.

{Is} the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Cross References

Galatians 2:21

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness {come} by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Romans 9:31

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

Romans 3:20-22

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law {is} the knowledge of sin.

Galatians 2:19

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

Romans 10:3-6

For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Romans 7:7-13

What shall we say then? {Is} the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. {lust: or, concupiscence}

Romans 3:31

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Galatians 2:17

But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, {is} therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.