Galatians 3:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be reckoned as righteous by faith.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ So that the Law served [to us Jews] as our trainer [our guardian, our guide to Christ, to lead us] until Christ [came], that we might be justified (declared righteous, put in right standing with God) by and through faith.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁴ so that the Law became our custodian until Christ so that we might be made righteous by faith.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ And so the law was our guardian in Christ, in order that we might be justified by faith.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 3:24 Cross References

Romans 10:4

For Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

Romans 9:30

What then are we to say? Gentiles, who did not strive for righteousness, have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith,

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.

Galatians 2:16

yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,

Galatians 3:25

But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian,

Colossians 2:17

These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the body belongs to Christ.