Galatians 3:23
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
KJV
πρὸ τοῦ δὲ ἐλθεῖν τὴν πίστιν ὑπὸ νόμον ἐφρουρούμεθα συνκλειόμενοι εἰς τὴν μέλλουσαν πίστιν ἀποκαλυφθῆναι.
Greek NT
Prius autem quam veniret fides, sub lege custodiebamur conclusi in eam fidem quæ revelanda erat.
Vulgate
But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
ASV
But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up, unto that faith which was to be revealed.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- συγκλειόμενοι — SBLGNT
- συγκλειόμενοι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- συγκεκλεισμένοι — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 12:13 — For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
- 1Pet 1:11 — Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
- 2Cor 3:13 — And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
- Acts 6:14 — For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
- Gal 2:4 — And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
- Gal 3:19 — Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
- Gal 3:22 — But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
- Gal 3:24 — Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- Gal 4:1 — Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
- Gal 4:21 — Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
- Gal 5:18 — But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
- Rom 3:19 — Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
- Rom 6:14 — For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
- Rom 6:14 — For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
- Rom 7:6 — But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
- Rom 11:32 — For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.