4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: …
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. …
Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: …
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The scope of the apostle in this part of the chapter is to show the vast difference between the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith, and the great pre-eminence of the righteousness of faith above that of the law; that he might induce and persuade the Jews to believe in Christ, aggravate the folly and sin of those that refused, and justify God in the rejection of such refusers.…
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