Galatians
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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 it be yet in vain.
5 He therefore that ministereth to
you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, 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, 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 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, 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 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 it be but a man’s covenant, yet 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, 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 be
of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to
Abraham by promise.
19 Wherefore then serveth the
law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to
whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the
hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not 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 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 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 be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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