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

²³ And turning to the disciples, he said privately, Blessed `are' the eyes which see the things that ye see:

²⁴ for I say unto you, that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.

² looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of `our' faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³⁹ And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

⁴⁰ God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

¹⁸ But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

²¹ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

¹ But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;

² but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.

³ So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

⁴ but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

⁵ that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

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

²⁵ But now faith that is come, we are no longer under a tutor.

¹⁹ 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 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

²¹ to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.

³² For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁵ What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

¹¹ searching what `time' or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them.

¹² To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angel desire to look into.