The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
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 3:20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
GAL 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for
if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily
righteousness should have been by the law.
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 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up
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