Galatians - Chapter 3 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
  • 2. This only would I learn of 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 made perfect by the flesh?
  • 4. Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if {cf15I it be} yet in vain.
  • 5. He therefore that ministereth 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 accounted to him for righteousness.
  • 7. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
  • 8. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, {cf15I saying}, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
  • 9. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
  • 10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed {cf15I is} every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • 11. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, {cf15I it is} evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
  • 12. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
  • 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed {cf15I is} every one that hangeth on a tree:
  • 14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
  • 15. Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though {cf15I it be} but a man's covenant, yet {cf15I if it be} confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
  • 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
  • 17. And this I say, {cf15I that} the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
  • 18. For if the inheritance {cf15I be} of the law, {cf15I it is} no more of promise: but God gave {cf15I it} to Abraham by promise.
  • 19. Wherefore then {cf15I serveth} the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; {cf15I and it was} ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
  • 20. Now a mediator is not {cf15I a mediator} of one, but God is one.
  • 21. {cf15I Is} the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
  • 22. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
  • 23. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
  • 24. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster {cf15I to bring us} unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  • 25. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
  • 26. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
  • 27. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  • 28. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
  • 29. And if ye {cf15I be} Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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