Galatians 3:24
New Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
תּוֹרָה
tôwrâh
a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
παιδαγωγός
paidagōgós
a boy-leader, i.e. a servant whose office it was to take the children to school; (by implication, (figuratively) a tutor ("pædagogue"))
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Χριστός
Christós
anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
צָדַק
tsâdaq
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
אֵמוּן
ʼêmûwn
established, i.e. (figuratively) trusty; also (abstractly) trustworthiness
Key Terms in This Verse
παιδαγωγός paidagōgós
a boy-leader, i.e. a servant whose office it was to take the children to school; (by implication, (figuratively) a tutor ("pædagogue"))
Study G3807 →צָדַק tsâdaq
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
Study H6663 →אֵמוּן ʼêmûwn
established, i.e. (figuratively) trusty; also (abstractly) trustworthiness
Study H529 →כֵּן kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Study H3651 →Cross References
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the ...
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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