Gal 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster {to bring us} unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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For Christ {is} the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Be it known unto you therefore, men {and} brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, {and} not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? {the body...: or, this body of death}
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body {is} of Christ.
For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
What shall we say then? {Is} the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. {lust: or, concupiscence}
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law {is} the knowledge of sin.
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet {have ye} not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
For Christ {is} the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope {did}; by the which we draw nigh unto God. {the bringing...: or, it was the bringing in}