²⁴The law, then, was our guardian ^funtil Christ, ^gso that we could be justified by faith. ²⁵But since that faith ^hhas come, we are no longer under a guardian,

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Footnotes

f3:24 The word translated guardian in vv. 24–25 is different from the word in Gl 4:2. In our culture, we do not have a slave who takes a child to and from school, protecting the child from harm or corruption. In Gk the word paidogogos described such a slave. This slave was not a teacher.

Cross references

g3:24 Mt 5:17; Col 2:17; Heb 9:10
h3:25 Jd 3

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The law, then, was our guardian until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith. But since that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith. And now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So then, the law became our guardian until Christ, in order that we could be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

KJV 1900King James Version

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

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Galatians 3:24–25

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