Galatians 3:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Galatians 3:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 5:18
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Galatians 3:24-25
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. …
Galatians 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Romans 6:14-15
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. …
Romans 11:32
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. faith--namely, that just mentioned (Ga 3:22), of which Christ is the object. kept--Greek, “kept in ward”: the effect of the “shutting up” (Ga 3:22; Ga 4:2; Ro 7:6). unto--“with a view to the faith,” &c. We were, in a manner, morally forced to it, so that there remained to us no refuge but faith. Compare the phrase, Psa 78:50, Margin; Psa 31:8. which should afterwards, &c.--“which was afterward…