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Galatians

3:1

Galatians 3 📜 📕 ↷

Faith and Belief

1 O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you, not to obey the truth, before whose eyes JESUS Christ was proscribed, being crucified among you?📜💬📚

2 This only I would learn of you: By the works of the Law, did you receive the Spirit, or by the hearing of the faith?📜💬📚

3 Are you so foolish, that whereas you began with the spirit, now you will be consummate with the flesh?📜💬📚

4 Have you suffered so great things without cause? if yet without cause.📜💬📚

5 He therefore that giveth you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you; by the works of the Law, or by the hearing of the faith doeth he it?📜💬📚

6 As, Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.📜💬📚

7 Know ye therefore that they that are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.📜💬📚

8 And the Scripture foreseeing that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, shewed unto Abraham before, That in thee shall all nations be blessed.📜💬📚

9 Therefore they that are of faith, shall be blessed with the faithful Abraham.📜💬📚

Christ Has Redeemed Us

10 For whosoever are of the works of the Law, are under curse. For it is written: Cursed be every one that abideth not in all things that be written in the book of the Law, to do them.📜💬📚

11 But that in the Law no man is justified with God, it is manifest, because the just liveth by faith.📜💬📚

12 But the Law is not by faith: but, He that doeth those things, shall live in them.📜💬📚

13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (because it is written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree)📜💬📚

14 that on the Gentiles the blessing of Abraham might be made in Christ JESUS: that we may receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.📜💬📚

Purpose of the Law

15 Brethren (I speak according to man) yet a man's testament being confirmed no man despiseth, or further disposeth.📜💬📚

16 To Abraham were the promises said, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as in many: but as in one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.📜💬📚

17 And this I say, the testament being confirmed of God, the Law which was made after four hundred and thirty years, maketh not void to frustrate the promise.📜💬📚

18 For if the inheritance be of the Law, now not of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise.📜💬📚

19 Why was the Law then? It was put for transgressions, until the seed came to whom he had promised: ordained by Angels in the hand of a mediator.📜💬📚

20 And a mediator is not of one: but God is one.📜💬📚

21 Was the Law then against the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had been a Law given that could justify, undoubtedly justice should be of the Law.📜💬📚

22 But the Scripture hath concluded all things under sin: that the promise by the faith of JESUS Christ might be given to them that believe.📜💬📚

23 But before the faith came, under the Law we were kept shut up, unto that faith which was to be revealed.📜💬📚

24 Therefore the Law was our Pedagogue in Christ: that we may be justified by faith.📜💬📚

25 But when the faith came, now we are not under a pedagogue.📜💬📚

Sons through Faith in Christ

26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ JESUS.📜💬📚

27 For as many of you as are baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.📜💬📚

28 There is not Jew nor Greek, there is not bond nor free, there is not male nor female. For all you are one in Christ JESUS.📜💬📚