21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. …
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-92)The apostle having just before been speaking of the promise made to Abraham, and representing that as the rule of our justification, and not the law, lest they should think he did too much derogate from the law, and render it altogether useless, he thence takes occasion to discourse of the design and tendency of it, and to acquaint us for what purposes it was given. It might be asked, “If that pro…
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