^{21 Ref} the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

^{22 Ref} but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

^{23 Ref} And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

^{24 Ref} so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

^{25 Ref} and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,