24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: …
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. …
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. …
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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