Oct. 6
Galatians 3
Gal 3:1 Foolish
Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose
eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?
Gal 3:2 I just want to
learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the
law, or by hearing of faith?
Gal 3:3 Are you so
foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the
flesh?
Gal 3:4 Did you suffer
so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
Gal 3:5 He therefore
who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he
do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
Gal 3:6 Even as Abraham
"believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."
Gal 3:7 Know therefore
that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.
Gal 3:8 The Scripture,
foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the
Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations
will be blessed."
Gal 3:9 So then, those
who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
Gal 3:10 For as many as
are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written,
"Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are
written in the book of the law, to do them."
Gal 3:11 Now that no
man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The
righteous will live by faith."
Gal 3:12 The law is not
of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
Gal 3:13 Christ
redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us.
For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
Gal 3:14 that the
blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus;
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Gal 3:15 Brothers,
speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when
it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
Gal 3:16 Now the
promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To
seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed,"
which is Christ.
Gal 3:17 Now I say
this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law,
which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to
make the promise of no effect.
Gal 3:18 For if the
inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has
granted it to Abraham by promise.
Gal 3:19 What then is
the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed
should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained
through angels by the hand of a mediator.
Gal 3:20 Now a mediator
is not between one, but God is one.
Gal 3:21 Is the law
then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had
been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness
would have been of the law.
Gal 3:22 But the
Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith
in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Gal 3:23 But before
faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the
faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Gal 3:24 So that the
law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be
justified by faith.
Gal 3:25 But now that
faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Gal 3:26 For you are
all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many of
you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is
neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:29 If you are
Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.