Galatians - Chapter 3 | American Standard Version

  • 1. O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?
  • 2. This only would I learn from you. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
  • 3. Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?
  • 4. Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.
  • 5. He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, {cf15i doeth he it} by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
  • 6. Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
  • 7. Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.
  • 8. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, {cf15i saying,} In thee shall all the nations be blessed.
  • 9. So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
  • 10. For 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.
  • 11. Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;
  • 12. and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.
  • 13. Christ 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:
  • 14. that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
  • 15. Brethren, 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.
  • 16. Now 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.
  • 17. Now 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.
  • 18. For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.
  • 19. What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; {cf15i and it was} ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
  • 20. Now a mediator is not {cf15i a mediator} of one; but God is one.
  • 21. Is 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.
  • 22. But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
  • 23. But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
  • 24. So that the law is become our tutor {cf15i to bring us} unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  • 25. But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor.
  • 26. For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus.
  • 27. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.
  • 28. There 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 {cf15i man} in Christ Jesus.
  • 29. And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise.
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