Galatians 3:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.

Cross References

Psalm 106:23

Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

Leviticus 15:32

“This is the rule for those who have a discharge: for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby;

Luke 16:31

He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’ ”

John 1:17

The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Acts 7:38

He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to us.

Acts 7:53

You are the ones who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet you have not kept it.”

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God’s sight but the doers of the law who will be justified.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, “And to offsprings,” as of many, but it says, “And to your offspring,” that is, to one person, who is Christ.

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said, “The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran. With him were myriads of holy ones, at his right, a host of his own.

Deuteronomy 5:5

(At that time I was standing between the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:

Hebrews 2:2

For if the message declared through angels proved valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty,

Hebrews 2:5

Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels.