^{17 Ref} Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

^{18 Ref} Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.

^{19 Ref} What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.