The law as guardian

Faith, Promise, and Heirs · Galatians 3

Story guide: Paul explains the law’s temporary guardian role until faith came. The domestic analogy is not a judgment that the law itself is evil.

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19Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions until the seed should come to whom the promise had been made, having been ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

20A mediator is not of one, but God is one.

21Is the law then against the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness really would have been from the law.

22But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

23But before faith came, we were being guarded under the law, confined until the faith that was about to be revealed.

24So then, the law has become our guardian until Messiah, so that we might be justified by faith.

25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

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