Note 19 at Gal. 3:13: The law brought a "blessing" if obeyed or a "curse" if disobeyed. ANY failure to obey the law brought on the curse (Dt. 28:15-68). Therefore, EVERYONE was under the curse (v. 22) for all have sinned (Rom. 3:23). But praise God, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by bearing our curse for us. Now, through Christ, we will never receive any curse from God even though we all still disobey the law in some way.

Paul cites Deuteronomy 21:23 (see O.T. Scripture cited in v. 13) to show that justice was satisfied when Jesus died for the law we broke, thus paying the prescribed penalty and bearing the curse. There is no condemnation awaiting us from the law, for we died in Him (Rom. 8:1).

There are three basic Greek words for "redeemed": (1) AGORAZO, which means "to buy in the slave market" (we were salves to the law); (2) EX-AGORAZO, which means "to buy OUT OF the slave market" (it would remove us out from under the principle of the law); (3) LUTROO, which means "to SET FREE or RELEASE by a payment" (Christ's death paid in full the justice the law demanded). We are now free from the law to be in union with another, Jesus Christ (Rom. 7:4). What the law was to the Jew (they thought it was eternal life), Jesus is to the believer. "Search the scriptures; for in them ye THINK YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE: and they are they which testify of me" (Jn. 5:39). Jesus Christ has replaced the law by Himself becoming the full manifestation of the will of God (Heb. 1:1-3).