^{17 Ref} Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

^{18 Ref} For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.

^{19 Ref} What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; `and it was' ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

^{20 Ref} Now a mediator is not `a mediator' of one; but God is one.

^{21 Ref} 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.

^{22 Ref} But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

^{23 Ref} But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

^{24 Ref} So that the law is become our tutor `to bring us' unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.