But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

But the scripture imprisoned everything and everyone under sin so that the promise could be given – because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ – to those who believe.

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”

What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.