Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Verse Takeaways
1
The Law as a Mirror
Commentators explain that the law was not given to provide salvation, but to reveal sin. Its purpose was to define transgression, show humanity its guilt, and demonstrate our inability to achieve righteousness on our own. Like a mirror, it exposes the problem but cannot fix it, thereby pointing us to our need for the Savior, Jesus Christ.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Galatians
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
Commentaries
15
Albert Barnes
On Galatians 3:19
18th Century
Theologian
Wherefore then serveth the law? This is obviously an objection which might be urged to the reasoning which the apostle had pursued. It was…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 3:19
What then is the law? (τ ουν ο νομοσ?). Or, why then the law? A pertinent question if the Abrahamic promise antedates it and holds…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 3:19
19th Century
Bishop
Wherefore then serveth the law?—Literally, What then is the Law? What is its object or function? If it did not a…
Go Ad-Free
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 3:17–20
19th Century
Preacher
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 3:19
To the question “What, then, was the purpose of the law?” Paul provides as his first answer that the law was added “because of transgressions” (GK …
John Gill
On Galatians 3:19
17th Century
Pastor
Wherefore why then serves the law ?
&c.] If this be the case, might an objector say, why was the law given? what end…
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 3:19–22
17th Century
Minister
If that promise was enough for salvation, what purpose, then, did the law serve? The Israelites, though chosen to be God's special people, were sin…