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of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if
righteousness
come
by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
CHAPTER 3
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God,
it is
evident:
for, The just shall live by faith.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us
unto Christ, that we
might be justified by faith.
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But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
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