Galatians 3:24 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

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

Galatians 3:24

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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.

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

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

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Galatians 3:1

"O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?"

Galatians 3:2

"This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"

Galatians 3:3

"Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?"

Galatians 3:4

"Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if {it be} yet in vain. {so many: or, so great}"

Galatians 3:5

"He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, {doeth he it} by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"

Galatians 3:6

"Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. {accounted: or, imputed}"

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