22but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.


In Context

19 Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator.

20 But a mediator is not of one, but God is one.

21 Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;

22 but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.

23 But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith which was about to be revealed.

24 So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith.

Galatians 3:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:22But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:22But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:22But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise, by the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:22But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:22Howbeit the scripture hath shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:22But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:22But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:22but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:22But the scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.