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The law was like those Greek tutors, with which you are familiar, who escort children to school and protect them from danger or distraction, making sure the children will really get to the place they set out for.
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The law, then, was our guardian described such a slave. This slave was not a teacher. until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith.
Galatians 3:24 In-Context
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But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
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Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed.
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So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.
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Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
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So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,