(Galations 2:15) Brothers, I speak with a human illustration: A validated covenant, though it is a man’s, no one sets aside or attaches additions to it. 16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. It says, not: “And to seeds,” as in the case of many such, but as in the case of one: “And to your seed,” who is Christ. 17Further, I say this: As to the covenant previously validated by God, the Law that has come into being four hundred and thirty years later does not invalidate it, so as to abolish the promise. 18For if the inheritance is due to law, it is no longer due to promise; whereas God has kindly given it to Abraham through a promise. 19Why, then, the Law? It was added to make transgressions manifest, until the seed should arrive to whom the promise had been made; and it was transmitted through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20Now there is no mediator where only one person is concerned, but God is only one. 21Is the Law, therefore, against the promises of God? May that never happen! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, righteousness would actually have been by means of law. 22But the Scripture delivered up all things together to the custody of sin, that the promise resulting from faith toward Jesus Christ might be given to those exercising faith. 23However, before the faith arrived, we were being guarded under law, being delivered up together into custody, looking to the faith that was destined to be revealed. 24Consequently the Law has become our tutor leading to Christ, that we might be declared righteous due to faith. 25But now that the faith has arrived, we are no longer under a tutor. 26YOU are all, in fact, sons of God through YOUR faith in Christ Jesus. 27For all of YOU who were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for YOU are all one [person] in union with Christ Jesus. 29Moreover, if YOU belong to Christ, YOU are really Abraham’s seed, heirs with reference to a promise. 4Now I say that as long as the heir is a babe he does not differ at all from a slave, lord of all things though he is, 2but he is under men in charge and under stewards until the day his father appointed beforehand. 3Likewise we also, when we were babes, continued enslaved by the elementary things belonging to the world. 4But when the full limit of the time arrived, God sent forth his Son, who came to be out of a woman and who came to be under law, 5that he might release by purchase those under law, that we, in turn, might receive the adoption as sons.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:52:05 +0000
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