Gal 3:24 | HCSB | STEP | The law , then , was our guardian until Christ , so that we could be justified by faith .

Galatians 3:24

24 The law, then, was our guardian ^{▼▼The word translated guardian in vv. 24-25 is different from the word in Gl 4:2. In our culture, we do not have a slave who takes a child to and from school, protecting the child from harm or corruption. In Gk the word paidogogos described such a slave. This slave was not a teacher.} until Christ, ^b so that we could be justified by faith.