Galatians 3:17-19

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁷ What I am saying is this: the Law, which came ^(A)four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. ¹⁸ For ^(B)if the inheritance is ^[a]based on law, it is no longer ^[b]based on a promise; but ^(C)God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.

^19 (D)Why the Law then? It was added ^[c]because of transgressions, having been ^(E)ordained through angels ^(F)by the ^[d]agency of a mediator, until ^(G)the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.