Galatians 3:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified 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.

Galatians 3:24 Cross References

Romans 10:4

For Christ is the end of the law, that every one who has faith may be justified.

Romans 9:30

What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith;

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Galatians 2:16

yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified.

Galatians 2:19

For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 3:25

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian;

Colossians 2:17

These are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.