BLB Gal 3

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Gal 3:19 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

then		Rom 3:1,2; Rom 7:7-13
It was added		Gal 3:21-24; Deu 4:8,9; Psa 147:19,20; Luk 16:31; Jhn 5:45-47; Jhn 15:22; Rom 2:13; Rom 3:19,20; Rom 4:15; Rom 5:20,21; Rom 7:7-13; 1Ti 1:8,9
till		Gal 3:16,25; Gal 4:1-4
by		Deu 33:2; Act 7:53; Hbr 2:2,5
in		Exd 20:19-22; Exd 24:1-12; Exd 34:27-35; Lev 15:32; Deu 5:5,22-33; Deu 9:13-20,25-29; Deu 18:15-19; Psa 106:23; Jhn 1:17; Act 7:38; The Apostle, having just before been speaking of the promise made to Abraham, and representing that as the rule of our justification, and not the law, lest they should think he derogated too much from the law, and thereby rendered it useless--he thence takes occasion to discourse of the design and tendency of it, and to acquaint us for what purposes it was given.

Correlating Passages

then

	Rom 3:1	What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?
	Rom 3:2	Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
	Rom 7:7	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.
	Rom 7:8	But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
	Rom 7:9	For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
	Rom 7:10	And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
	Rom 7:11	For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
	Rom 7:12	Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
	Rom 7:13	Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

It was added

	Gal 3:21	[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.
	Gal 3:22	But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
	Gal 3:23	But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
	Gal 3:24	Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
	Deu 4:8	And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
	Deu 4:9	Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
	Psa 147:19	He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
	Psa 147:20	He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
	Luk 16:31	And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
	Jhn 5:45	Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is [one] that accuseth you, [even] Moses, in whom ye trust.
	Jhn 5:46	For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
	Jhn 5:47	But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
	Jhn 15:22	If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
	Rom 2:13	(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
	Rom 3:19	Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
	Rom 3:20	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.
	Rom 4:15	Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.
	Rom 5:20	Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
	Rom 5:21	That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
	Rom 7:7	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.
	Rom 7:8	But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
	Rom 7:9	For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
	Rom 7:10	And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
	Rom 7:11	For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
	Rom 7:12	Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
	Rom 7:13	Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
	1Ti 1:8	But we know that the law [is] good, if a man use it lawfully;
	1Ti 1:9	Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

till

	Gal 3:16	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.
	Gal 3:25	But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
	Gal 4:1	Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
	Gal 4:2	But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
	Gal 4:3	Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
	Gal 4:4	But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

	Deu 33:2	And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them.
	Act 7:53	Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it].
	Hbr 2:2	For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
	Hbr 2:5	For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

	Exd 20:19	And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
	Exd 20:20	And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
	Exd 20:21	And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God [was].
	Exd 20:22	And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
	Exd 24:1	And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
	Exd 24:2	And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
	Exd 24:3	And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
	Exd 24:4	And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
	Exd 24:5	And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
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	Exd 34:27	And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.