| 1 | O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? |
| 2 | This only would I learn from 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 perfected in the flesh? |
| 4 | Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain. |
| 5 | He therefore that supplieth 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 reckoned unto him for righteousness. |
| 7 | Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham. |
| 8 | And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, [saying,] In thee shall all the nations be blessed. |
| 9 | So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. |
| 10 | For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them. |
| 11 | Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith; |
| 12 | and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them. |
| 13 | Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: |
| 14 | that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; 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 when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto. |
| 16 | Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. |
| 17 | Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect. |
| 18 | For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise. |
| 19 | What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; [and it was] ordained through angels by 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 make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law. |
| 22 | But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. |
| 23 | But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. |
| 24 | So that the law is become our tutor [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. |
| 25 | But now faith that is come, we are no longer under a tutor. |
| 26 | For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus. |
| 27 | For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ. |
| 28 | There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one [man] in Christ Jesus. |
| 29 | And if ye are Christ`s, then are ye Abraham`s seed, heirs according to promise. |
