New Revised Standard Version
Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed.

Contemporary English Version
The Law controlled us and kept us under its power until the time came when we would have faith.

New American Bible
Before faith came, we were held in custody under law, confined for the faith that was to be revealed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up, unto that faith which was to be revealed.

But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up, unto that faith which was to be revealed.

faith came.

Galatians 3:19,24,25 Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. . . .

Galatians 4:1-4 As long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all, . . .

Hebrews 12:2 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

under.

Galatians 4:4,5,21 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: . . .

Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

Romans 6:14,15 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:20,21 And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: . . .

the faith.

Luke 10:23,24 And turning to his disciples, he said: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. . . .

Hebrews 11:13,39,40 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. . . .

1 Peter 1:11,12 Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ and the glories that should follow. . . .