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# against the promises
"opposed to the promises" or "in conflict with the promises"
# if a law had been given that could give life
This can be stated in active form, and the abstract noun "life" can be translated with the verb "live." Alternate translation: "if God had given a law that enabled those who kept it to live" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])
# righteousness would certainly have come by the law
"we could have become righteous by obeying that law"