² For if the message declared through angels proved valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty,^(A)

⁵³ You are the ones who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet you have not kept it.”^(A)

The Purpose of the Law

¹⁹ Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring^[a] would come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.^(A)

Judgment on False Teachers

⁵ Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved^[a] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.^(A)