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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
1Abraham
believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
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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,
1In thee
shall all nations be blessed.
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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 1curse: for it is written,
2Cursed is every one
that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to
do them.
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11 | But that no
man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for,
1The just
shall live by faith.
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And the law is not of faith: but,
1The man that doeth them shall live in
them.
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13 | Christ hath
redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is
written,
1Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
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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. |
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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,
1And to thy seed, which is Christ.
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17 | And this I say, that the 1covenant, 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.
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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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