Galatians 3:23
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Context
This verse from Galatians Chapter 3 connects to 10 cross-references. You foolish Galatians! Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Abraham believed God and it was counted as righteousness. The scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and preached …
Other Translations
But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,
But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.
Cross References
For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have …
And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye …
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he …
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise …
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now …