Gal 3
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O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you?
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This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith?
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Are you so foolish, that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect
by the flesh?
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Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.
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He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you; doth he
do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of the faith?
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As it is written: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
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Know ye therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
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And the scripture, foreseeing, that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto
Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.
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Therefore they that are of faith, shall be blessed with faithful Abraham.
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For as many as are of the works of the law, are under a curse. For it is written:
Cursed is every one, that abideth not in all things, which are written in the book
of the law to do them.
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But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: because the just
man liveth by faith.
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But the law is not of faith: but, He that doth those things, shall live in them.
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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:
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That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus: that
we may receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
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Brethren (I speak after the manner of man,) yet a man's testament, if it be confirmed,
no man despiseth, nor addeth to it.
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To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not, And to his seeds,
as of many: but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
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Now this I say, that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made
after four hundred and thirty years, doth not disannul, to make the promise of no
effect.
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For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to
Abraham by promise.
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Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should
come, to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
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Now a mediator is not of one: but God is one.
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Was the law then against the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had been a
law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law.
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But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise, by the faith of
Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe.
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But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up, unto that faith which
was to be revealed.
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Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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But after the faith is come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.
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For you are all the children of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.
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For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.
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There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male
nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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And if you be Christ's, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.