Galatians 3:22-24

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²²But the Scripture has imprisoned everything under sin’s power,^[a]^(A) so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ^(B) might be given to those who believe.^(C) ²³Before this faith^(D) came, we were confined under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed.^(E) ²⁴The law, then, was our guardian^[b] until Christ,^(F) so that we could be justified by faith.

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Footnotes

Galatians 3:22 Lit under sin
Galatians 3:24 The word translated guardian in vv. 24-25 is different from the word in Gl 4:2. In our culture, we do not have a slave who takes a child to and from school, protecting the child from harm or corruption. In Gk the word paidogogos described such a slave. This slave was not a teacher.