Galatians 3:21

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Is the lawe then agaynst the promyses of God? God forbyd. Howbeit yf there had bene geuen a lawe which coulde haue geue life, the no doute righteousnes shulde come of the lawe.

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  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I cast not awaye the grace of God. For yf righteousnes come by the lawe, then dyed Christ in vayne.
  • Rom 3:20-22 : 20 because yt by ye dedes of the lawe no flesh maye be iustified in his sighte. For by the lawe commeth but the knowlege of synne. 21 But now without addinge to of ye lawe is the righteousnes which avayleth before God, declared, hauynge witnesse of ye lawe and the prophetes: 22 but I speake of ye righteousnes before God, which cometh by the faith on Iesus Christ, vnto all, and vpo all them that beleue.For here is no difference.
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What shal we saye then? Is the lawe synne? God forbyd: Neuertheles I knewe not synne, but by ye lawe. For I had knowne nothinge of lust, yf the lawe had not sayde: Thou shalt not lust. 8 But then toke synne occasion at the commaundement, and stered vp in me all maner of lust. For without the lawe synne was deed. 9 As for me, I lyued some tyme without lawe. Howbeit whan the commaundement came, synne reuyued, but I was deed. 10 And the very same commaundement that was geuen me vnto life, was founde to be vnto me on occasion of death. 11 For synne toke occasion at the comaundement, and disceaued me, and slewe me by the same commaundement. 12 The lawe in dede is holy, and the commaundement holy, iust and good. 13 Is that then which is good, become death vnto me? God forbyd. But synne, that it mighte appeare how yt it is synne, hath wroughte me death thorow good: that synne mighte be out of measure synfull by the commaundement.
  • Rom 9:31 : 31 Agayne, Israel folowed the lawe of righteousnes, and attayned not vnto the lawe of righteousnes.
  • Rom 10:3-6 : 3 For they knowe not the righteousnes which auayleth before God, and go aboute to manteyne their awne righteousnes: and thus they are not subdued vnto the righteousnes, that is off value before God. 4 For Christ is the ende of the lawe, vnto righteousnes for euery one yt beleueth. 5 Moses wryteth of ye righteousnes which commeth of the lawe, that the man which doth ye same, shal lyue therin. 6 But ye righteousnes which cometh of faith, speaketh on this wyse: Saye not in thine hert: Who wil go vp in to heaue? (that is nothinge els then to fetch Christ downe)
  • Gal 2:17 : 17 Yf we then which seke to be made righteous by christ, shulde be yet founde synners or selues, is not Christ then the mynister of synne? God forbyd.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 But I thorow the lawe am deed vnto the lawe, that I might lyue vnto God.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Destroye we then the lawe thorow faith? God forbyd. But we mantayne the lawe.
  • Matt 5:17-20 : 17 Thinke not, that I am come to destroye the lawe, or the Prophetes: no, I am not come to destroye them, but to fulfyll them. 18 For truly I saye vnto you: till heauen and earth perisshe, one iott or one tyttle of the lawe shall not escape, tyll all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoeuer breaketh one of these least comaundmentes, and teacheth me so, he shalbe called the leest in the kyngdome of heauen, But whosoeuer obserueth and teacheth the same shalbe called greate in the kyngdome of heauen. 20 For I saye vnto you: excepte youre rightewesnes exceade the righetewesnes of the Scribes and Pharises, ye can not entre in to the kyngdome of heauen.
  • Rom 3:4 : 4 God forbyd. Let it rather be thus, that God is true, and all me lyers. As it is wrytten: That thou mayest be iustified in thy sayenges, and shuldest ouercome, wha thou art iudged.
  • Rom 3:6 : 6 God forbyd. How mighte God the iudge ye worlde?
  • Phil 3:6-9 : 6 as concernynge feruentnes I persecuted the cogregacion: and as touchinge the righteousnes which is in the lawe, I was vnrebukable. 7 But the thinges that were vauntage vnto me, haue I counted losse for Christes sake. 8 Yee I thynke all thinges but losse, for that excellent knowleges sake of Christ Iesu my LORDE: for whom I haue counted all thinge losse, and do iudge them but donge, that I mighte wynne Christ, 9 & be founde in him, not hauynge myne awne righteousnes which commeth of the lawe, but by the faith of Christ (namely) the righteousnes which commeth of God in faith,
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noe honoured God, after yt he was warned of thinges which were not sene, & prepared the Arke, to ye sauinge of his housholde: thorow the which Arke he condemned the worlde, and became heyre of the righteousnes, which commeth by faith.

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    17This Testament (I saye) which afore was confirmed to Christ warde, is not disanulled (that the promes shulde be made of none affecte) by the lawe which was geuen beyonde foure hundreth & thirtie yeares therafter.

    18For yf the enheritaunce be gotten by the lawe, then is it not geuen by promes. But God gaue it frely vnto Abraham by promes.

    19Wherfore the serueth the lawe? It was added because of trangression, tyll the sede came, to the which the promes was made. And it was geuen of angels, by the hande of the mediatoure.

    20A mediatour is not a mediatour of one onely, but God is one.

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    10For as many as go aboute with the workes of the lawe, are vnder ye curse: For it is wrytte: Cursed be euery man, which cotynueth not in all thinges that are wrytte in the boke of the lawe, to do them.

    11That no man is iustified by the lawe in the sighte of God, it is euydet: For ye iust shal lyue by his faith.

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    20because yt by ye dedes of the lawe no flesh maye be iustified in his sighte. For by the lawe commeth but the knowlege of synne.

    21But now without addinge to of ye lawe is the righteousnes which avayleth before God, declared, hauynge witnesse of ye lawe and the prophetes:

    22but I speake of ye righteousnes before God, which cometh by the faith on Iesus Christ, vnto all, and vpo all them that beleue.For here is no difference.

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    22But ye scripture hath shut vp all vnder synne, that ye promes shulde come by the faith on Iesus Christ, geue vnto the that beleue.

    23Before faith came, we were kepte and shut vp vnder the lawe, vnto the faith which shulde afterwarde be declared.

    24Thus ye lawe was or scolemaster vnto Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

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    21I cast not awaye the grace of God. For yf righteousnes come by the lawe, then dyed Christ in vayne.

  • Rom 3:30-31
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    30for so moch as he is the God onely that iustifieth the circumcision which is of faith, and the vncircucision thorow faith.

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    27Where is now then thy reioysinge? It is excluded. By what lawe? By the lawe of workes? Nay, but by the lawe of faith.

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    16yet (in so moch as we knowe, that a man is not made righteous by the dedes off the lawe, but by the faith on Iesus Christ) we haue beleued also on Iesus Christ, yt we might be made righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by the dedes of the lawe, because that by the dedes of the lawe no flesh shal be iustified.

    17Yf we then which seke to be made righteous by christ, shulde be yet founde synners or selues, is not Christ then the mynister of synne? God forbyd.

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    13For the promes (that he shulde be ye heyre of the worlde) was not made vnto Abraham or to his sede thorow the lawe, but thorow the righteousnes of faith.

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    4For Christ is the ende of the lawe, vnto righteousnes for euery one yt beleueth.

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    19But I thorow the lawe am deed vnto the lawe, that I might lyue vnto God.

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    39and fro all ye thinges, wherby ye mighte not be iustifyed in the lawe of Moses.

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    15How then? Shal we synne, because we are not vnder ye lawe, but vnder grace? God forbyd.

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    13Is that then which is good, become death vnto me? God forbyd. But synne, that it mighte appeare how yt it is synne, hath wroughte me death thorow good: that synne mighte be out of measure synfull by the commaundement.

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    21Tell me ye that wylbe vnder the lawe, haue ye not herde the lawe?

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    5He that geueth you the sprete, and doth soch greate actes amoge you, doth he it thorow the dedes of the lawe, or by ye preachinge of the faith?

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    6God forbyd. How mighte God the iudge ye worlde?

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    9As for me, I lyued some tyme without lawe. Howbeit whan the commaundement came, synne reuyued, but I was deed.

    10And the very same commaundement that was geuen me vnto life, was founde to be vnto me on occasion of death.