The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians
3:1 O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ
was openly set forth crucified? 3:2This only would I learn from you. Received ye
the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3:3Are ye so foolish?
having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh? 3:4Did ye suffer so
many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain. 3:5He therefore that supplieth to you
the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith? 3:6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned
unto him for righteousness. 3:7Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same
are sons of Abraham. 3:8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the
Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, saying, In thee
shall all the nations be blessed. 3:9So then they that are of faith are blessed with the
faithful Abraham. 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse:
for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are
written in the book of the law, to do them. 3:11Now that no man is justified by the
law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith; 3:12and the law is
not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them. 3:13Christ redeemed us from
the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree: 3:14that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing
of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith. 3:15Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a
man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or
addeth thereto. 3:16Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He
saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is
Christ. 3:17Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law,
which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make
the promise of none effect. 3:18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of
promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise. 3:19What then is the law?
It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the
promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a
mediator. 3:20Now a mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one. 3:21Is the law
then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given
which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law. 3:22But
the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ
might be given to them that believe. 3:23But before faith came, we were kept in
ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
3:24So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we might be
justified by faith. 3:25But now faith that is come, we are no longer under a tutor.
3:26For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus. 3:27For as many of you
as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ. 3:28There can be neither Jew nor
Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye
all are one man in Christ Jesus. 3:29And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's
seed, heirs according to promise.