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

²³ And having turned unto the disciples, he said, by themselves, `Happy the eyes that are perceiving what ye perceive;

²⁴ for I say to you, that many prophets and kings did wish to see what ye perceive, and did not see, and to hear what ye hear, and did not hear.'

² looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

³⁹ and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

⁴⁰ God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

¹³ In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

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

²¹ Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

¹ And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,

² but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,

³ so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

⁴ and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

⁵ that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;

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

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

¹⁹ Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --

²⁰ and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;

²¹ to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;

³² for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

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

¹⁵ What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

¹⁹ And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

¹¹ searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,

¹² to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.