Galatians 3:21

Galatians chapter 3 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Is 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.

ASV

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.

Context

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

v.21This passage

v.22But the scripture shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Romans 3:4
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.
Romans 3:31
Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
Matthew 5:17
Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.
Galatians 2:17
But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Romans 3:20
because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.