Galatians 3:19 Why, then, was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the chi...

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New Living Translation - Why, then, was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child who was promised. God gave his law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people.
新标点和合本 - 这样说来，律法是为什么有的呢？原是为过犯添上的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到，并且是藉天使经中保之手设立的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 这样说来，为什么要有律法呢？律法是为过犯的缘故而加上去的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到才结束，是藉着天使经中保之手而设立的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 这样说来，为什么要有律法呢？律法是为过犯的缘故而加上去的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到才结束，是藉着天使经中保之手而设立的。
当代译本 - 那么，为什么会有律法呢？律法是为了使人知罪而增设的，一直存到那位承受应许的后裔来临。律法是通过天使交给一位中保颁布的。
圣经新译本 - 那么，为什么要有律法呢？是为了过犯的缘故才加上的，直到那得应许的后裔来到。律法是藉着天使经中保的手设立的；
中文标准译本 - 那么，为什么要有律法呢？律法是为了过犯的缘故被加上的，直到那蒙应许的后裔来临；律法是藉着天使，通过中保的手所规定的。
现代标点和合本 - 这样说来，律法是为什么有的呢？原是为过犯添上的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到；并且是藉天使、经中保之手设立的。
和合本（拼音版） - 这样说来，律法是为什么有的呢？原是为过犯添上的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到，并且是藉天使经中保之手设立的。
New International Version - Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator.
New International Reader's Version - Then why was the law given at all? It was added because of human sin. And it was supposed to control us until the promised Seed had come. The law was given through angels, and a go-between was put in charge of it.
English Standard Version - Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
Christian Standard Bible - Why, then, was the law given? It was added for the sake of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.
New American Standard Bible - Why the Law then? It was added on account of the violations, having been ordered through angels at the hand of a mediator, until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.
New King James Version - What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
Amplified Bible - Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.
American Standard Version - What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
King James Version - 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.
New English Translation - Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.
World English Bible - Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
新標點和合本 - 這樣說來，律法是為甚麼有的呢？原是為過犯添上的，等候那蒙應許的子孫來到，並且是藉天使經中保之手設立的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 這樣說來，為甚麼要有律法呢？律法是為過犯的緣故而加上去的，等候那蒙應許的子孫來到才結束，是藉着天使經中保之手而設立的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 這樣說來，為甚麼要有律法呢？律法是為過犯的緣故而加上去的，等候那蒙應許的子孫來到才結束，是藉着天使經中保之手而設立的。
當代譯本 - 那麼，為什麼會有律法呢？律法是為了使人知罪而增設的，一直存到那位承受應許的後裔來臨。律法是通過天使交給一位中保頒佈的。
聖經新譯本 - 那麼，為甚麼要有律法呢？是為了過犯的緣故才加上的，直到那得應許的後裔來到。律法是藉著天使經中保的手設立的；
呂振中譯本 - 那麼、律法怎麼樣呢？律法是為顯明犯法之事而增設的；是臨時的措施、等所應許的後裔來到的；是藉着天使經中間人之手規定的。
中文標準譯本 - 那麼，為什麼要有律法呢？律法是為了過犯的緣故被加上的，直到那蒙應許的後裔來臨；律法是藉著天使，通過中保的手所規定的。
現代標點和合本 - 這樣說來，律法是為什麼有的呢？原是為過犯添上的，等候那蒙應許的子孫來到；並且是藉天使、經中保之手設立的。
文理和合譯本 - 然則律何為耶、乃為罪而設、待受許之裔至、又由天使於中保之手而訂、
文理委辦譯本 - 然則律法何以、曰、律法為有罪者設、待所應許之裔至、且律法藉天使賜中保以傳、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 然則律法何益、曰、為罪愆而設、待受應許之裔至焉、且律法傳授、藉天使、託中保之手、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 然則律法何為而作乎？蓋人多為非作惡、乃有律法之添設、以俟承受嗣業者之來臨。且律法之制、乃由主之使者授之於居間人之手。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Entonces, ¿cuál era el propósito de la ley? Fue añadida por causa de las transgresiones hasta que viniera la descendencia a la cual se hizo la promesa. La ley se promulgó por medio de ángeles, por conducto de un mediador.
현대인의 성경 - 그렇다면 율법을 주신 목적은 무엇이었습니까? 그것은 약속된 분이 오실 때까지 죄가 무엇인지를 깨닫게 하기 위한 것입니다. 그 율법은 천사들이 전해 준 것을 사람이 받아 공포한 것입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - В чем же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был добавлен позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришел Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
Восточный перевод - В чём же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был дан позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришёл Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - В чём же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был дан позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришёл Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - В чём же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был дан позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришёл Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais alors, pourquoi la Loi ? Elle a été ajoutée pour mettre en évidence la désobéissance des hommes à l’ordre divin, et le régime qu’elle a instauré devait rester en vigueur jusqu’à la venue de la descendance d’Abraham que la promesse concernait. Cette Loi a été promulguée par l’intermédiaire d’anges et par le moyen d’un médiateur, Moïse.
リビングバイブル - では、そもそも律法は何のために与えられたのでしょうか。それは、神の約束につけ加えられたものであり、それに違反することがどんなに罪深いことかを人々に示すためです。ただし、この律法の有効期間は、その約束の指し示す「子」、すなわち、キリストが来られる時まででした。さらに次のような点も指摘できます。神様は律法を、天使たちを通してモーセにお与えになり、モーセがそれを民に告げ知らせたのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - Τί οὖν ὁ νόμος; τῶν παραβάσεων χάριν προσετέθη, ἄχρις οὗ ἔλθῃ τὸ σπέρμα ᾧ ἐπήγγελται, διαταγεὶς δι’ ἀγγέλων ἐν χειρὶ μεσίτου.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - τί οὖν ὁ νόμος? τῶν παραβάσεων χάριν προσετέθη, ἄχρις οὗ ἔλθῃ τὸ σπέρμα ᾧ ἐπήγγελται, διαταγεὶς δι’ ἀγγέλων ἐν χειρὶ μεσίτου.
Nova Versão Internacional - Qual era então o propósito da Lei? Foi acrescentada por causa das transgressões, até que viesse o Descendente a quem se referia a promessa, e foi promulgada por meio de anjos, pela mão de um mediador.
Hoffnung für alle - Was aber soll dann überhaupt das Gesetz? Gott hat es zusätzlich gegeben, damit wir das Ausmaß unserer Sünden erkennen. Dieses Gesetz – von den Engeln durch den Vermittler Mose zu uns gebracht – sollte auch nur so lange gelten, bis der Nachkomme von Abraham da wäre, an dem Gott sein Versprechen erfüllen wollte.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Như thế, luật pháp có nhiệm vụ gì? Luật pháp được công bố để giúp loài người nhận biết tội lỗi mình, cho đến khi Chúa Cứu Thế xuất hiện, tức Đấng đã hứa từ trước. Đức Chúa Trời ban hành luật pháp qua các thiên sứ cho Môi-se, là người trung gian giữa Đức Chúa Trời và con người.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ถ้าเช่นนั้นบทบัญญัติมีไว้เพื่ออะไร? การที่มีบทบัญญัติเพิ่มขึ้นมาก็เพราะการล่วงละเมิดทั้งหลาย และบทบัญญัตินี้คงอยู่จนกว่า “พงศ์พันธุ์” นั้นซึ่งพระสัญญาระบุไว้มาถึง บทบัญญัติมีผลบังคับใช้ผ่านทางเหล่าทูตสวรรค์โดยคนกลาง
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แล้วกฎบัญญัติมีไว้เพื่ออะไร มีเพิ่มขึ้นมาไว้เพื่อให้เห็นว่าการกระทำใดเข้าข่ายการละเมิด จนกว่าผู้สืบเชื้อสายตามพระสัญญาที่อ้างถึงนั้นมาแล้ว บรรดาทูตสวรรค์เป็นผู้ที่ช่วยส่งกฎบัญญัติให้โดยมีคนกลาง

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Psalms 147:19 - He has revealed his words to Jacob, his decrees and regulations to Israel.
Psalms 147:20 - He has not done this for any other nation; they do not know his regulations. Praise the Lord!
John 5:45 - “Yet it isn’t I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your hopes.
John 5:46 - If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
John 5:47 - But since you don’t believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”
Deuteronomy 5:22 - “The Lord spoke these words to all of you assembled there at the foot of the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice 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.
Deuteronomy 5:23 - “But when you heard the voice from the heart of the darkness, while the mountain was blazing with fire, all your tribal leaders and elders came to me.
Deuteronomy 5:24 - They said, ‘Look, 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 that God can speak to us humans, and yet we live!
Deuteronomy 5:25 - But now, why should we risk death again? If the Lord our God speaks to us again, we will certainly die and be consumed by this awesome fire.
Deuteronomy 5:26 - Can any living thing hear the voice of the living God from the heart of the fire as we did and yet survive?
Deuteronomy 5:27 - Go yourself and listen to what the Lord our God says. Then come and tell us everything he tells you, and we will listen and obey.’
Deuteronomy 5:28 - “The Lord heard the request you made to me. And he said, ‘I have heard what the people said to you, and they are right.
Deuteronomy 5:29 - Oh, that they would always have hearts like this, that they might fear me and obey all my commands! If they did, they and their descendants would prosper forever.
Deuteronomy 5:30 - Go and tell them, “Return to your tents.”
Deuteronomy 5:31 - But you stand here with me so I can give you all my commands, decrees, and regulations. You must teach them to the people so they can obey them in the land I am giving them as their possession.’”
Deuteronomy 5:32 - So Moses told the people, “You must be careful to obey all the commands of the Lord your God, following his instructions in every detail.
Deuteronomy 5:33 - Stay on the path that the Lord your God has commanded you to follow. Then you will live long and prosperous lives in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
Romans 3:1 - Then what’s the advantage of being a Jew? Is there any value in the ceremony of circumcision?
Romans 3:2 - Yes, there are great benefits! First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God.
Hebrews 2:5 - And furthermore, it is not angels who will control the future world we are talking about.
Exodus 34:27 - Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down all these instructions, for they represent the terms of the covenant I am making with you and with Israel.”
Exodus 34:28 - Moses remained there on the mountain with the Lord forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. And the Lord wrote the terms of the covenant—the Ten Commandments —on the stone tablets.
Exodus 34:29 - When Moses came down Mount Sinai carrying the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant, he wasn’t aware that his face had become radiant because he had spoken to the Lord.
Exodus 34:30 - So when Aaron and the people of Israel saw the radiance of Moses’ face, they were afraid to come near him.
Exodus 34:31 - But Moses called out to them and asked Aaron and all the leaders of the community to come over, and he talked with them.
Exodus 34:32 - Then all the people of Israel approached him, and Moses gave them all the instructions the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.
Exodus 34:33 - When Moses finished speaking with them, he covered his face with a veil.
Exodus 34:34 - But whenever he went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the Lord, he would remove the veil until he came out again. Then he would give the people whatever instructions the Lord had given him,
Exodus 34:35 - and the people of Israel would see the radiant glow of his face. So he would put the veil over his face until he returned to speak with the Lord.
Deuteronomy 9:25 - “That is why I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights—for the Lord said he would destroy you.
Deuteronomy 9:26 - I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘O Sovereign Lord, do not destroy them. They are your own people. They are your special possession, whom you redeemed from Egypt by your mighty power and your strong hand.
Deuteronomy 9:27 - Please overlook the stubbornness and the awful sin of these people, and remember instead your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:28 - If you destroy these people, the Egyptians will say, “The Israelites died because the Lord wasn’t able to bring them to the land he had promised to give them.” Or they might say, “He destroyed them because he hated them; he deliberately took them into the wilderness to slaughter them.”
Deuteronomy 9:29 - But they are your people and your special possession, whom you brought out of Egypt by your great strength and powerful arm.’
Leviticus 15:32 - These are the instructions for dealing with anyone who has a bodily discharge—a man who is unclean because of an emission of semen
Deuteronomy 4:8 - And what great nation has decrees and regulations as righteous and fair as this body of instructions that I am giving you today?
Deuteronomy 4:9 - “But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. Do not let these memories escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren.
Galatians 3:21 - Is there a conflict, then, between God’s law and God’s promises? Absolutely not! If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it.
Galatians 3:22 - But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3:23 - Before the way of faith in Christ was available to us, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed.
Galatians 3:24 - Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith.
Galatians 3:25 - And now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.
Luke 16:31 - “But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they won’t be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
Psalms 106:23 - 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.
Deuteronomy 33:2 - “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.
Exodus 24:1 - Then the Lord instructed Moses: “Come up here to me, and bring along Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders. All of you must worship from a distance.
Exodus 24:2 - Only Moses is allowed to come near to the Lord. The others must not come near, and none of the other people are allowed to climb up the mountain with him.”
Exodus 24:3 - Then Moses went down to the people and repeated all the instructions and regulations the Lord had given him. All the people answered with one voice, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded.”
Exodus 24:4 - Then Moses carefully wrote down all the Lord’s instructions. Early the next morning Moses got up and built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He also set up twelve pillars, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus 24:5 - Then he sent some of the young Israelite men to present burnt offerings and to sacrifice bulls as peace offerings to the Lord.
Exodus 24:6 - Moses drained half the blood from these animals into basins. The other half he splattered against the altar.
Exodus 24:7 - Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people. Again they all responded, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded. We will obey.”
Exodus 24:8 - Then Moses took the blood from the basins and splattered it over the people, declaring, “Look, this blood confirms the covenant the Lord has made with you in giving you these instructions.”
Exodus 24:9 - Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel climbed up the mountain.
Exodus 24:10 - There they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there seemed to be a surface of brilliant blue lapis lazuli, as clear as the sky itself.
Exodus 24:11 - And though these nobles of Israel gazed upon God, he did not destroy them. In fact, they ate a covenant meal, eating and drinking in his presence!
Exodus 24:12 - Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain. Stay there, and I will give you the tablets of stone on which I have inscribed the instructions and commands so you can teach the people.”
Exodus 20:19 - And they said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen. But don’t let God speak directly to us, or we will die!”
Exodus 20:20 - “Don’t be afraid,” Moses answered them, “for God has come in this way to test you, and so that your fear of him will keep you from sinning!”
Exodus 20:21 - As the people stood in the distance, Moses approached the dark cloud where God was.
Exodus 20:22 - And the Lord said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: You saw for yourselves that I spoke to you from heaven.
Deuteronomy 18:15 - Moses continued, “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.
Deuteronomy 18:16 - For this is what you yourselves requested of the Lord your God when you were assembled at Mount Sinai. You said, ‘Don’t let us hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore or see this blazing fire, for we will die.’
Deuteronomy 18:17 - “Then the Lord said to me, ‘What they have said is right.
Deuteronomy 18:18 - I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell the people everything I command him.
Deuteronomy 18:19 - I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf.
Galatians 4:1 - Think of it this way. If a father dies and leaves an inheritance 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.
Galatians 4:2 - They have to obey their guardians until they reach whatever age their father set.
Galatians 4:3 - And that’s the way it was with us before Christ came. We were like children; we were slaves to the basic spiritual principles of this world.
Galatians 4:4 - But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.
Deuteronomy 9:13 - “The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.
Deuteronomy 9:14 - 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.’
Deuteronomy 9:15 - “So while the mountain was blazing with fire I turned and came down, holding in my hands the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant.
Deuteronomy 9:16 - There below me I could see that you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had melted gold and made a calf idol for yourselves. How quickly you had turned away from the path the Lord had commanded you to follow!
Deuteronomy 9:17 - So I took the stone tablets and threw them to the ground, smashing them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 9:18 - “Then, as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger.
Deuteronomy 9:19 - I feared that the furious anger of the Lord, which turned him against you, would drive him to destroy you. But again he listened to me.
Deuteronomy 9:20 - The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he wanted to destroy him, too. But I prayed for Aaron, and the Lord spared him.
Acts of the Apostles 7:38 - Moses was with our ancestors, the assembly of God’s people in the wilderness, when the angel spoke to him at Mount Sinai. And there Moses received life-giving words to pass on to us.
Romans 3:19 - Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses, and to show that the entire world is guilty before God.
Romans 3:20 - For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.
John 15:22 - They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
John 1:17 - For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.
Romans 2:13 - For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight.
1 Timothy 1:8 - We know that the law is good when used correctly.
1 Timothy 1:9 - For the law was not intended for people who do what is right. It is for people who are lawless and rebellious, who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing sacred and defile what is holy, who kill their father or mother or commit other murders.
Hebrews 2:2 - For the message God delivered through angels has always stood firm, and every violation of the law and every act of disobedience was punished.
Romans 4:15 - For the law always brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)
Deuteronomy 5:5 - I stood as an intermediary between you and the Lord, for you were afraid of the fire and did not want to approach the mountain. He spoke to me, and I passed his words on to you. This is what he said:
Romans 5:20 - 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 grace became more abundant.
Romans 5:21 - So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Galatians 3:16 - God gave the promises to Abraham and his child. And notice that the Scripture doesn’t say “to his children, ” as if it meant many descendants. Rather, it says “to his child”—and that, of course, means Christ.
Romans 7:7 - Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? Of course not! In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”
Romans 7:8 - But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
Romans 7:9 - At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,
Romans 7:10 - and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.
Romans 7:11 - Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.
Romans 7:12 - But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.
Romans 7:13 - But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.
Acts of the Apostles 7:53 - You deliberately disobeyed God’s law, even though you received it from the hands of angels.”

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New Living Translation - Why, then, was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child who was promised. God gave his law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people.
新标点和合本 - 这样说来，律法是为什么有的呢？原是为过犯添上的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到，并且是藉天使经中保之手设立的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 这样说来，为什么要有律法呢？律法是为过犯的缘故而加上去的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到才结束，是藉着天使经中保之手而设立的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 这样说来，为什么要有律法呢？律法是为过犯的缘故而加上去的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到才结束，是藉着天使经中保之手而设立的。
当代译本 - 那么，为什么会有律法呢？律法是为了使人知罪而增设的，一直存到那位承受应许的后裔来临。律法是通过天使交给一位中保颁布的。
圣经新译本 - 那么，为什么要有律法呢？是为了过犯的缘故才加上的，直到那得应许的后裔来到。律法是藉着天使经中保的手设立的；
中文标准译本 - 那么，为什么要有律法呢？律法是为了过犯的缘故被加上的，直到那蒙应许的后裔来临；律法是藉着天使，通过中保的手所规定的。
现代标点和合本 - 这样说来，律法是为什么有的呢？原是为过犯添上的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到；并且是藉天使、经中保之手设立的。
和合本（拼音版） - 这样说来，律法是为什么有的呢？原是为过犯添上的，等候那蒙应许的子孙来到，并且是藉天使经中保之手设立的。
New International Version - Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator.
New International Reader's Version - Then why was the law given at all? It was added because of human sin. And it was supposed to control us until the promised Seed had come. The law was given through angels, and a go-between was put in charge of it.
English Standard Version - Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
Christian Standard Bible - Why, then, was the law given? It was added for the sake of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.
New American Standard Bible - Why the Law then? It was added on account of the violations, having been ordered through angels at the hand of a mediator, until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.
New King James Version - What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
Amplified Bible - Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.
American Standard Version - What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
King James Version - 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.
New English Translation - Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.
World English Bible - Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
新標點和合本 - 這樣說來，律法是為甚麼有的呢？原是為過犯添上的，等候那蒙應許的子孫來到，並且是藉天使經中保之手設立的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 這樣說來，為甚麼要有律法呢？律法是為過犯的緣故而加上去的，等候那蒙應許的子孫來到才結束，是藉着天使經中保之手而設立的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 這樣說來，為甚麼要有律法呢？律法是為過犯的緣故而加上去的，等候那蒙應許的子孫來到才結束，是藉着天使經中保之手而設立的。
當代譯本 - 那麼，為什麼會有律法呢？律法是為了使人知罪而增設的，一直存到那位承受應許的後裔來臨。律法是通過天使交給一位中保頒佈的。
聖經新譯本 - 那麼，為甚麼要有律法呢？是為了過犯的緣故才加上的，直到那得應許的後裔來到。律法是藉著天使經中保的手設立的；
呂振中譯本 - 那麼、律法怎麼樣呢？律法是為顯明犯法之事而增設的；是臨時的措施、等所應許的後裔來到的；是藉着天使經中間人之手規定的。
中文標準譯本 - 那麼，為什麼要有律法呢？律法是為了過犯的緣故被加上的，直到那蒙應許的後裔來臨；律法是藉著天使，通過中保的手所規定的。
現代標點和合本 - 這樣說來，律法是為什麼有的呢？原是為過犯添上的，等候那蒙應許的子孫來到；並且是藉天使、經中保之手設立的。
文理和合譯本 - 然則律何為耶、乃為罪而設、待受許之裔至、又由天使於中保之手而訂、
文理委辦譯本 - 然則律法何以、曰、律法為有罪者設、待所應許之裔至、且律法藉天使賜中保以傳、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 然則律法何益、曰、為罪愆而設、待受應許之裔至焉、且律法傳授、藉天使、託中保之手、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 然則律法何為而作乎？蓋人多為非作惡、乃有律法之添設、以俟承受嗣業者之來臨。且律法之制、乃由主之使者授之於居間人之手。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Entonces, ¿cuál era el propósito de la ley? Fue añadida por causa de las transgresiones hasta que viniera la descendencia a la cual se hizo la promesa. La ley se promulgó por medio de ángeles, por conducto de un mediador.
현대인의 성경 - 그렇다면 율법을 주신 목적은 무엇이었습니까? 그것은 약속된 분이 오실 때까지 죄가 무엇인지를 깨닫게 하기 위한 것입니다. 그 율법은 천사들이 전해 준 것을 사람이 받아 공포한 것입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - В чем же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был добавлен позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришел Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
Восточный перевод - В чём же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был дан позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришёл Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - В чём же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был дан позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришёл Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - В чём же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был дан позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришёл Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais alors, pourquoi la Loi ? Elle a été ajoutée pour mettre en évidence la désobéissance des hommes à l’ordre divin, et le régime qu’elle a instauré devait rester en vigueur jusqu’à la venue de la descendance d’Abraham que la promesse concernait. Cette Loi a été promulguée par l’intermédiaire d’anges et par le moyen d’un médiateur, Moïse.
リビングバイブル - では、そもそも律法は何のために与えられたのでしょうか。それは、神の約束につけ加えられたものであり、それに違反することがどんなに罪深いことかを人々に示すためです。ただし、この律法の有効期間は、その約束の指し示す「子」、すなわち、キリストが来られる時まででした。さらに次のような点も指摘できます。神様は律法を、天使たちを通してモーセにお与えになり、モーセがそれを民に告げ知らせたのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - Τί οὖν ὁ νόμος; τῶν παραβάσεων χάριν προσετέθη, ἄχρις οὗ ἔλθῃ τὸ σπέρμα ᾧ ἐπήγγελται, διαταγεὶς δι’ ἀγγέλων ἐν χειρὶ μεσίτου.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - τί οὖν ὁ νόμος? τῶν παραβάσεων χάριν προσετέθη, ἄχρις οὗ ἔλθῃ τὸ σπέρμα ᾧ ἐπήγγελται, διαταγεὶς δι’ ἀγγέλων ἐν χειρὶ μεσίτου.
Nova Versão Internacional - Qual era então o propósito da Lei? Foi acrescentada por causa das transgressões, até que viesse o Descendente a quem se referia a promessa, e foi promulgada por meio de anjos, pela mão de um mediador.
Hoffnung für alle - Was aber soll dann überhaupt das Gesetz? Gott hat es zusätzlich gegeben, damit wir das Ausmaß unserer Sünden erkennen. Dieses Gesetz – von den Engeln durch den Vermittler Mose zu uns gebracht – sollte auch nur so lange gelten, bis der Nachkomme von Abraham da wäre, an dem Gott sein Versprechen erfüllen wollte.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Như thế, luật pháp có nhiệm vụ gì? Luật pháp được công bố để giúp loài người nhận biết tội lỗi mình, cho đến khi Chúa Cứu Thế xuất hiện, tức Đấng đã hứa từ trước. Đức Chúa Trời ban hành luật pháp qua các thiên sứ cho Môi-se, là người trung gian giữa Đức Chúa Trời và con người.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ถ้าเช่นนั้นบทบัญญัติมีไว้เพื่ออะไร? การที่มีบทบัญญัติเพิ่มขึ้นมาก็เพราะการล่วงละเมิดทั้งหลาย และบทบัญญัตินี้คงอยู่จนกว่า “พงศ์พันธุ์” นั้นซึ่งพระสัญญาระบุไว้มาถึง บทบัญญัติมีผลบังคับใช้ผ่านทางเหล่าทูตสวรรค์โดยคนกลาง
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แล้วกฎบัญญัติมีไว้เพื่ออะไร มีเพิ่มขึ้นมาไว้เพื่อให้เห็นว่าการกระทำใดเข้าข่ายการละเมิด จนกว่าผู้สืบเชื้อสายตามพระสัญญาที่อ้างถึงนั้นมาแล้ว บรรดาทูตสวรรค์เป็นผู้ที่ช่วยส่งกฎบัญญัติให้โดยมีคนกลาง

Psalms 147:19 - He has revealed his words to Jacob, his decrees and regulations to Israel.
Psalms 147:20 - He has not done this for any other nation; they do not know his regulations. Praise the Lord!
John 5:45 - “Yet it isn’t I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your hopes.
John 5:46 - If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
John 5:47 - But since you don’t believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”
Deuteronomy 5:22 - “The Lord spoke these words to all of you assembled there at the foot of the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice 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.
Deuteronomy 5:23 - “But when you heard the voice from the heart of the darkness, while the mountain was blazing with fire, all your tribal leaders and elders came to me.
Deuteronomy 5:24 - They said, ‘Look, 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 that God can speak to us humans, and yet we live!
Deuteronomy 5:25 - But now, why should we risk death again? If the Lord our God speaks to us again, we will certainly die and be consumed by this awesome fire.
Deuteronomy 5:26 - Can any living thing hear the voice of the living God from the heart of the fire as we did and yet survive?
Deuteronomy 5:27 - Go yourself and listen to what the Lord our God says. Then come and tell us everything he tells you, and we will listen and obey.’
Deuteronomy 5:28 - “The Lord heard the request you made to me. And he said, ‘I have heard what the people said to you, and they are right.
Deuteronomy 5:29 - Oh, that they would always have hearts like this, that they might fear me and obey all my commands! If they did, they and their descendants would prosper forever.
Deuteronomy 5:30 - Go and tell them, “Return to your tents.”
Deuteronomy 5:31 - But you stand here with me so I can give you all my commands, decrees, and regulations. You must teach them to the people so they can obey them in the land I am giving them as their possession.’”
Deuteronomy 5:32 - So Moses told the people, “You must be careful to obey all the commands of the Lord your God, following his instructions in every detail.
Deuteronomy 5:33 - Stay on the path that the Lord your God has commanded you to follow. Then you will live long and prosperous lives in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
Romans 3:1 - Then what’s the advantage of being a Jew? Is there any value in the ceremony of circumcision?
Romans 3:2 - Yes, there are great benefits! First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God.
Hebrews 2:5 - And furthermore, it is not angels who will control the future world we are talking about.
Exodus 34:27 - Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down all these instructions, for they represent the terms of the covenant I am making with you and with Israel.”
Exodus 34:28 - Moses remained there on the mountain with the Lord forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. And the Lord wrote the terms of the covenant—the Ten Commandments —on the stone tablets.
Exodus 34:29 - When Moses came down Mount Sinai carrying the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant, he wasn’t aware that his face had become radiant because he had spoken to the Lord.
Exodus 34:30 - So when Aaron and the people of Israel saw the radiance of Moses’ face, they were afraid to come near him.
Exodus 34:31 - But Moses called out to them and asked Aaron and all the leaders of the community to come over, and he talked with them.
Exodus 34:32 - Then all the people of Israel approached him, and Moses gave them all the instructions the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.
Exodus 34:33 - When Moses finished speaking with them, he covered his face with a veil.
Exodus 34:34 - But whenever he went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the Lord, he would remove the veil until he came out again. Then he would give the people whatever instructions the Lord had given him,
Exodus 34:35 - and the people of Israel would see the radiant glow of his face. So he would put the veil over his face until he returned to speak with the Lord.
Deuteronomy 9:25 - “That is why I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights—for the Lord said he would destroy you.
Deuteronomy 9:26 - I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘O Sovereign Lord, do not destroy them. They are your own people. They are your special possession, whom you redeemed from Egypt by your mighty power and your strong hand.
Deuteronomy 9:27 - Please overlook the stubbornness and the awful sin of these people, and remember instead your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:28 - If you destroy these people, the Egyptians will say, “The Israelites died because the Lord wasn’t able to bring them to the land he had promised to give them.” Or they might say, “He destroyed them because he hated them; he deliberately took them into the wilderness to slaughter them.”
Deuteronomy 9:29 - But they are your people and your special possession, whom you brought out of Egypt by your great strength and powerful arm.’
Leviticus 15:32 - These are the instructions for dealing with anyone who has a bodily discharge—a man who is unclean because of an emission of semen
Deuteronomy 4:8 - And what great nation has decrees and regulations as righteous and fair as this body of instructions that I am giving you today?
Deuteronomy 4:9 - “But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. Do not let these memories escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren.
Galatians 3:21 - Is there a conflict, then, between God’s law and God’s promises? Absolutely not! If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it.
Galatians 3:22 - But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3:23 - Before the way of faith in Christ was available to us, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed.
Galatians 3:24 - Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith.
Galatians 3:25 - And now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.
Luke 16:31 - “But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they won’t be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
Psalms 106:23 - 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.
Deuteronomy 33:2 - “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.
Exodus 24:1 - Then the Lord instructed Moses: “Come up here to me, and bring along Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders. All of you must worship from a distance.
Exodus 24:2 - Only Moses is allowed to come near to the Lord. The others must not come near, and none of the other people are allowed to climb up the mountain with him.”
Exodus 24:3 - Then Moses went down to the people and repeated all the instructions and regulations the Lord had given him. All the people answered with one voice, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded.”
Exodus 24:4 - Then Moses carefully wrote down all the Lord’s instructions. Early the next morning Moses got up and built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He also set up twelve pillars, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus 24:5 - Then he sent some of the young Israelite men to present burnt offerings and to sacrifice bulls as peace offerings to the Lord.
Exodus 24:6 - Moses drained half the blood from these animals into basins. The other half he splattered against the altar.
Exodus 24:7 - Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people. Again they all responded, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded. We will obey.”
Exodus 24:8 - Then Moses took the blood from the basins and splattered it over the people, declaring, “Look, this blood confirms the covenant the Lord has made with you in giving you these instructions.”
Exodus 24:9 - Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel climbed up the mountain.
Exodus 24:10 - There they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there seemed to be a surface of brilliant blue lapis lazuli, as clear as the sky itself.
Exodus 24:11 - And though these nobles of Israel gazed upon God, he did not destroy them. In fact, they ate a covenant meal, eating and drinking in his presence!
Exodus 24:12 - Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain. Stay there, and I will give you the tablets of stone on which I have inscribed the instructions and commands so you can teach the people.”
Exodus 20:19 - And they said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen. But don’t let God speak directly to us, or we will die!”
Exodus 20:20 - “Don’t be afraid,” Moses answered them, “for God has come in this way to test you, and so that your fear of him will keep you from sinning!”
Exodus 20:21 - As the people stood in the distance, Moses approached the dark cloud where God was.
Exodus 20:22 - And the Lord said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: You saw for yourselves that I spoke to you from heaven.
Deuteronomy 18:15 - Moses continued, “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.
Deuteronomy 18:16 - For this is what you yourselves requested of the Lord your God when you were assembled at Mount Sinai. You said, ‘Don’t let us hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore or see this blazing fire, for we will die.’
Deuteronomy 18:17 - “Then the Lord said to me, ‘What they have said is right.
Deuteronomy 18:18 - I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell the people everything I command him.
Deuteronomy 18:19 - I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf.
Galatians 4:1 - Think of it this way. If a father dies and leaves an inheritance 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.
Galatians 4:2 - They have to obey their guardians until they reach whatever age their father set.
Galatians 4:3 - And that’s the way it was with us before Christ came. We were like children; we were slaves to the basic spiritual principles of this world.
Galatians 4:4 - But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.
Deuteronomy 9:13 - “The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.
Deuteronomy 9:14 - 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.’
Deuteronomy 9:15 - “So while the mountain was blazing with fire I turned and came down, holding in my hands the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant.
Deuteronomy 9:16 - There below me I could see that you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had melted gold and made a calf idol for yourselves. How quickly you had turned away from the path the Lord had commanded you to follow!
Deuteronomy 9:17 - So I took the stone tablets and threw them to the ground, smashing them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 9:18 - “Then, as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger.
Deuteronomy 9:19 - I feared that the furious anger of the Lord, which turned him against you, would drive him to destroy you. But again he listened to me.
Deuteronomy 9:20 - The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he wanted to destroy him, too. But I prayed for Aaron, and the Lord spared him.
Acts of the Apostles 7:38 - Moses was with our ancestors, the assembly of God’s people in the wilderness, when the angel spoke to him at Mount Sinai. And there Moses received life-giving words to pass on to us.
Romans 3:19 - Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses, and to show that the entire world is guilty before God.
Romans 3:20 - For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.
John 15:22 - They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
John 1:17 - For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.
Romans 2:13 - For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight.
1 Timothy 1:8 - We know that the law is good when used correctly.
1 Timothy 1:9 - For the law was not intended for people who do what is right. It is for people who are lawless and rebellious, who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing sacred and defile what is holy, who kill their father or mother or commit other murders.
Hebrews 2:2 - For the message God delivered through angels has always stood firm, and every violation of the law and every act of disobedience was punished.
Romans 4:15 - For the law always brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)
Deuteronomy 5:5 - I stood as an intermediary between you and the Lord, for you were afraid of the fire and did not want to approach the mountain. He spoke to me, and I passed his words on to you. This is what he said:
Romans 5:20 - 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 grace became more abundant.
Romans 5:21 - So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Galatians 3:16 - God gave the promises to Abraham and his child. And notice that the Scripture doesn’t say “to his children, ” as if it meant many descendants. Rather, it says “to his child”—and that, of course, means Christ.
Romans 7:7 - Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? Of course not! In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”
Romans 7:8 - But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
Romans 7:9 - At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,
Romans 7:10 - and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.
Romans 7:11 - Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.
Romans 7:12 - But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.
Romans 7:13 - But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.
Acts of the Apostles 7:53 - You deliberately disobeyed God’s law, even though you received it from the hands of angels.”