Galatians 3:19

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

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• Acts 7:53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
• Rom 7:7–13What 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.
• Heb 2:2For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
• Gal 3:16Now 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.
• 1 Tim 1:8–9But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
• Rom 5:20–21Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
• Rom 4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
• Rom 3:19–20Now 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 2:13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
• John 15:22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
• Deut 5:5(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
• Acts 7:38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
• Rom 3:1–2What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
• Deut 33:2And 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.
• John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
• Deut 9:13–20Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
• Exod 24:1–12And 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.
• John 5:45–47Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
• Lev 15:32This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
• Deut 4:8–9And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
• Luke 16:31And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
• Deut 9:25–29Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
• Exod 20:19–22And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
• Deut 5:22–33These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
• Ps 106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
• Heb 2:5For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
• Gal 4:1–4Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
• Gal 3:21–25Is 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.
• Deut 18:15–19The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
• Exod 34:27–35And 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.
• Ps 147:19–20He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

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