Galatians 3:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²¹ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Is the Law then contrary and opposed to the promises of God? Of course not! For if a Law had been given which could confer [spiritual] life, then righteousness and right standing with God would certainly have come by Law.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ 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.

Common English Bible

²¹ So, is the Law against the promises of God? Absolutely not! If a Law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would in fact have come from the Law.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ So then, was the law contrary to the promises of God? Let it not be so! For if a law had been given, which was able to give life, truly justice would be of the law.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Was the law then against the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law.

Galatians 3:21 Cross References

Luke 20:16

He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

Romans 3:31

Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

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 judgement.

Romans 3:6

God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

Romans 9:31

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

2 Corinthians 3:7

But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away:

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.

Galatians 2:19

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

Galatians 2:21

I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Hebrews 7:18

For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.