48:003:014 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 48:003:015 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. 48:003:016 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. 48:003:017 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. 48:003:018 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. 48:003:019 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. 48:003:020 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. 48:003:021 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. 48:003:022 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 48:003:023 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 48:003:024 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 48:003:025 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 48:003:026 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 48:003:027 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 48:003:028 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 48:003:029 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. 48:004:001 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 48:004:002 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 48:004:003 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 48:004:004 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 48:004:005 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.