Galatians 3:19

The law was added because of transgressions, until the promised offspring should come. It served a temporary, subordinate purpose.

Cross-references · 31

• Acts 7:53You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
• Rom 7:7–13What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
• Heb 2:2For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
• Gal 3:16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants ”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring ”, which is Christ.
• 1 Tim 1:8–9But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• Rom 4:15For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
• Rom 3:19–20Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Rom 2:13For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
• John 15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
• Deut 5:5(I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you Yahweh’s word: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain;) saying,
• Acts 7:38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
• Rom 3:1–2Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
• Deut 33:2He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
• Deut 9:13–20Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
• Exod 24:1–12He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
• John 5:45–47“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
• Lev 15:32This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
• Deut 4:8–9What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?
• Luke 16:31“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”
• Deut 9:25–29So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
• Exod 20:19–22They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”
• Deut 5:22–33Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
• Ps 106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
• Heb 2:5For he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.
• Gal 4:1–4But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;
• Gal 3:21–25Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
• Deut 18:15–19Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
• Exod 34:27–35Yahweh said to Moses, “Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
• Ps 147:19–20He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

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