Why then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, until the Seed should come to whom it had been promised; and it was commanded through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Therefore the law has become our custodian, [leading us] to Christ, so that we might be justified by faith.

But after faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian.

Now I say, for as much time as the heir is a minor, he does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,

Even so we, when we were minors, were enslaved by the elements of the world.

looking unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured [the] cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

so that He might redeem those under the law, so that we might receive the adoption.

Tell me, you who wish to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

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

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

and to the Jews I became as a Jew, in order that I might win Jews; to those who are under law, as under law, in order that I might win those who are under law;

to those outside the law, as [one] outside the law (not being outside the law toward God, but subject to [the] law toward Christ), in order that I might win those outside the law;

And turning to His disciples He said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see what you see;

for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and they did not see [them], and to hear what you hear, and they did not hear."

These all died according to faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off and welcoming [them], and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

And all these, having obtained witness through their faith, did not receive the promise,

God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them was revealing when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories which were to follow:

To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to you they were ministering these things, which things were now announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven--things which angels desire to look into.