GALATIANS CHAPTER III

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 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 promise 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 after 
wards be revealed. 
24 Wherefore the law was our school-master 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 school-master. 
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.