Galatians 3:21

American Standard Version (1901)

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.

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  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.
  • Rom 3:20-22 : 20 because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin. 21 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet: 8 but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead. 9 And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; 10 and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I found [to be] unto death: 11 for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me. 12 So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. 13 Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;--that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
  • Rom 9:31 : 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law.
  • Rom 10:3-6 : 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth. 5 For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:)
  • Gal 2:17 : 17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
  • Matt 5:17-20 : 17 Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.
  • Rom 3:4 : 4 God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
  • Rom 3:6 : 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
  • Phil 3:6-9 : 6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. 7 Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ, 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

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    17Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

    18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.

    19What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; [and it was] ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

    20Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one; but God is one.

  • Gal 3:10-12
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    10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

    12and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

  • Rom 3:20-22
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    20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.

    21But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

    22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;

  • Gal 3:22-24
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    22But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

    23But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

    24So that the law is become our tutor [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

  • Rom 3:30-31
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    30if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

    31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

    28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

  • Rom 4:13-16
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    13For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

    14For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

    15for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

    16For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

  • Rom 7:7
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

  • Rom 10:4-5
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    4For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.

    5For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

  • Acts 13:39
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    15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

  • Gal 3:14-15
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    14that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

    15Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.

  • Rom 7:13
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    13Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;--that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

  • Gal 4:21
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    21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

  • Gal 3:5-6
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    5He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

    6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

  • Rom 8:2-3
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

    3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not toward God.

  • Rom 3:6
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    6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

  • Phil 3:9
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    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

  • Gal 3:2
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    2This only would I learn from you. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

  • Rom 5:13
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    13for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

  • Rom 2:13
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    13for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

    31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.

  • Rom 7:9-10
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    9And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

    10and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I found [to be] unto death: