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Galatians 3:23

Galatians chapter 3 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

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.

v.23This passage

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

Cross references

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

  • Galatians 4:21

    Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

  • 1 Corinthians 9:20

    And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

  • Luke 10:23

    And turning to the disciples, he said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:

  • Romans 3:19

    Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

  • 1 Peter 1:11

    searching what time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them.

  • Galatians 3:24

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