Galatians 3:19

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

Cross References (31)

  • Acts 7:53 (18)

    you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

  • Romans 7:7–13 (13)

    What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law.

  • Hebrews 2:2 (13)

    For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,

  • Galatians 3:16 (10)

    The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and

  • 1 Timothy 1:8–9 (9)

    Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.

  • Romans 5:20–21 (8)

    The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

  • Romans 4:15 (8)

    because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • Romans 3:19–20 (7)

    Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and

  • Acts 7:38 (5)

    He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he re

  • John 15:22 (5)

    If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

  • Romans 2:13 (5)

    For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared r

  • Deuteronomy 5:5 (5)

    At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of

  • Romans 3:1–2 (5)

    What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

  • Deuteronomy 33:2 (4)

    He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads o

  • Deuteronomy 9:13–20 (4)

    The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

  • John 1:17 (4)

    For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

  • Exodus 24:1–12 (3)

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you

  • Galatians 3:21–25 (3)

    Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, the

  • Hebrews 2:5 (3)

    For it is not to angels that He has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.

  • Exodus 34:27–35 (3)

    The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you

  • Deuteronomy 9:25–29 (3)

    So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

  • Leviticus 15:32 (3)

    This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,

  • Luke 16:31 (3)

    Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone r

  • Deuteronomy 5:22–33 (3)

    The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkne

  • Psalms 106:23 (3)

    So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from de

  • Exodus 20:19–22 (3)

    “Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”

  • Deuteronomy 4:8–9 (3)

    And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

  • Galatians 4:1–4 (3)

    What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of ev

  • John 5:45–47 (3)

    Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

  • Deuteronomy 18:15–19 (3)

    The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

  • Psalms 147:19–20 (2)

    He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.