My
highlighted verses: Galatians 3:1
¶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.
Galatians 3:25
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.
The just shall live by faith.
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