Galatians 3:19 Cross References

Galatians 3:19

19: Well then, why was the law given? It was given to show people how guilty they are. But this system of law was to last only until the coming of the child to whom God's promise was made. And there is this further difference. God gave his laws to angels to give to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people.

Romans 7:7

  1. Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is evil? Of course not! The law is not sinful, but it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
  2. But sin took advantage of this law and aroused all kinds of forbidden desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
  3. I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.
  4. So the good law, which was supposed to show me the way of life, instead gave me the death penalty.
  5. Sin took advantage of the law and fooled me; it took the good law and used it to make me guilty of death.

Acts 7:53

  1. You deliberately disobeyed God's law, though you received it from the hands of angels. "

Galatians 3:16

  1. God gave the promise to Abraham and his child. And notice that it doesn't say the promise was to his children, as if it meant many descendants. But the promise was to his child--and that, of course, means Christ.

Hebrews 2:2

  1. The message God delivered through angels has always proved true, and the people were punished for every violation of the law and every act of disobedience.

Romans 4:15

  1. But the law brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)

Romans 5:20

  1. God's law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God's wonderful kindness became more abundant.
  2. So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God's wonderful kindness rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Timothy 1:8

  1. We know these laws are good when they are used as God intended.
  2. But they were not made for people who do what is right. They are for people who are disobedient and rebellious, who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing sacred and defile what is holy, who murder their father or mother or other people.

Deuteronomy 5:5

  1. I stood as an intermediary between you and the LORD, for you were afraid of the fire and did not climb the mountain. He spoke to me, and I passed his words on to you. This is what he said:

John 15:22

  1. They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 2:13

  1. For it is not merely knowing the law that brings God's approval. Those who obey the law will be declared right in God's sight.

Romans 3:19

  1. Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses and to bring the entire world into judgment before God.
  2. For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.

Acts 7:38

  1. Moses was with the assembly of God's people in the wilderness. He was the mediator between the people of Israel and the angel who gave him life-giving words on Mount Sinai to pass on to us.

Romans 3:1

  1. Then what's the advantage of being a Jew? Is there any value in the Jewish ceremony of circumcision?
  2. Yes, being a Jew has many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God.

John 1:17

  1. For the law was given through Moses; God's unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.

Exodus 34:27

  1. And the LORD said to Moses, "Write down all these instructions, for they represent the terms of my covenant with you and with Israel."
  2. Moses was up on the mountain with the LORD forty days and forty nights. In all that time he neither ate nor drank. At that time he wrote the terms of the covenant--the Ten Commandments--on the stone tablets.
  3. When Moses came down the mountain carrying the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant, he wasn't aware that his face glowed because he had spoken to the LORD face to face.
  4. And when Aaron and the people of Israel saw the radiance of Moses' face, they were afraid to come near him.
  5. But Moses called to them and asked Aaron and the community leaders to come over and talk with him.

Deuteronomy 5:22

  1. "The LORD spoke these words with a loud voice to all of you from the heart of the fire, surrounded by clouds and deep darkness. This was all he said at that time, and he wrote his words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
  2. But when you heard the voice from the darkness, while the mountain was blazing with fire, all your tribal leaders came to me.
  3. They said, `The LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice from the heart of the fire. Today we have seen God speaking to humans, and yet we live!
  4. But now, why should we die? If the LORD our God speaks to us again, we will certainly die and be consumed by this awesome fire.
  5. Can any living thing hear the voice of the living God from the heart of the fire and yet survive?

Deuteronomy 9:25

  1. "That is why I fell down and lay before the LORD for forty days and nights when he was ready to destroy you.
  2. I prayed to the LORD and said, `O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your own people. They are your special possession, redeemed from Egypt by your mighty power and glorious strength.
  3. Overlook the stubbornness and sin of these people, but remember instead your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  4. If you destroy these people, the Egyptians will say, "The LORD destroyed them because he wasn't able to bring them to the land he had sworn to give them." Or they might say, "He destroyed them because he hated them; he brought them into the wilderness to slaughter them."
  5. But they are your people and your special possession, whom you brought from Egypt by your mighty power and glorious strength.'

John 5:45

  1. "Yet it is not I who will accuse you of this before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, on whom you set your hopes.
  2. But if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me because he wrote about me.
  3. And since you don't believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?"

Deuteronomy 4:8

  1. And what great nation has laws and regulations as fair as this body of laws that I am giving you today?
  2. "But watch out! Be very careful never to forget what you have seen the LORD do for you. Do not let these things escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren.

Luke 16:31

  1. "But Abraham said, 'If they won't listen to Moses and the prophets, they won't listen even if someone rises from the dead.'"

Deuteronomy 33:2

  1. "The LORD came from Mount Sinai and dawned upon us from Mount Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran and came from Meribah-kadesh with flaming fire at his right hand.

Galatians 3:21

  1. Well then, is there a conflict between God's law and God's promises? Absolutely not! If the law could have given us new life, we could have been made right with God by obeying it.
  2. But the Scriptures have declared that we are all prisoners of sin, so the only way to receive God's promise is to believe in Jesus Christ.
  3. Until faith in Christ was shown to us as the way of becoming right with God, we were guarded by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until we could put our faith in the coming Savior.
  4. Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian and teacher to lead us until Christ came. So now, through faith in Christ, we are made right with God.
  5. But now that faith in Christ has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.

Exodus 20:19

  1. And they said to Moses, "You tell us what God says, and we will listen. But don't let God speak directly to us. If he does, we will die!"
  2. "Don't be afraid," Moses said, "for God has come in this way to show you his awesome power. From now on, let your fear of him keep you from sinning!"
  3. As the people stood in the distance, Moses entered into the deep darkness where God was.
  4. And the LORD said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel: You are witnesses that I have spoken to you from heaven.

Deuteronomy 9:13

  1. "The LORD said to me, `I have been watching this people, and they are extremely stubborn.
  2. Leave me alone so I may destroy them and erase their name from under heaven. Then I will make a mighty nation of your descendants, a nation larger and more powerful than they are.'
  3. "So I came down from the fiery mountain, holding in my hands the two stone tablets of the covenant.
  4. There below me I could see the gold calf you had made in your terrible sin against the LORD your God. How quickly you had turned from the path the LORD had commanded you to follow!
  5. So I raised the stone tablets and dashed them to the ground. I smashed them before your very eyes.

Deuteronomy 18:15

  1. "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites, and you must listen to that prophet.
  2. For this is what you yourselves requested of the LORD your God when you were assembled at Mount Sinai. You begged that you might never again have to listen to the voice of the LORD your God or see this blazing fire for fear you would die.
  3. "Then the LORD said to me, `Fine, I will do as they have requested.
  4. I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will tell that prophet what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command him.
  5. I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf.

Hebrews 2:5

  1. And furthermore, the future world we are talking about will not be controlled by angels.

Galatians 4:1

  1. Think of it this way. If a father dies and leaves great wealth for his young children, those children are not much better off than slaves until they grow up, even though they actually own everything their father had.
  2. They have to obey their guardians until they reach whatever age their father set.
  3. And that's the way it was with us before Christ came. We were slaves to the spiritual powers of this world.
  4. But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.

Leviticus 15:32

  1. These are the instructions for dealing with a man who has been defiled by a genital discharge or an emission of semen;

Exodus 24:1

  1. Then the LORD instructed Moses: "Come up here to me, and bring along Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel's leaders. All of them must worship at a distance.
  2. You alone, Moses, are allowed to come near to the LORD. The others must not come too close. And remember, none of the other people are allowed to climb on the mountain at all."
  3. When Moses had announced to the people all the teachings and regulations the LORD had given him, they answered in unison, "We will do everything the LORD has told us to do."
  4. Then Moses carefully wrote down all the LORD's instructions. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He also set up twelve pillars around the altar, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
  5. Then he sent some of the young men to sacrifice young bulls as burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.

Psalms 106:23

  1. So he declared he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the LORD and the people. He begged him to turn from his anger and not destroy them.

Psalms 147:19

  1. He has revealed his words to Jacob, his principles and laws to Israel.
  2. He has not done this with any other nation; they do not know his laws. Praise the LORD!
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