Galatians 3:23

²³Before 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.s

Galatians 3 is the theological heart of Paul's letter, where he confronts the Galatians' drift toward law-keeping with a thunderous appeal to the gospel of grace alone. Paul argues that righteousness comes through faith in Christ, not by works of the law, using Abraham as his primar