Galatians 3:19-21

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The purpose of God's Law

¹⁹ So we could ask: Why did God give his Law to his people after his promise to Abraham? He gave his Law to show them which things are wrong. It would have authority until Abraham's special descendant would come. That was the descendant that God had promised to bless. God used angels to give his Law to his people.^[a] It was Moses who received the Law from God, and Moses then took it to God's people. ²⁰ But God himself gave his promise to Abraham. It was not necessary to have somebody in between, like Moses.

²¹ So should we say that God's Law works against God's promises? No, certainly that is not true! It is not possible for the rules of any law to give us life with God. If that could happen, then God would have accepted us as right if we obeyed those rules.