Galatians 3:1-14 - Justified By The Law, Or Justified By Faith?
1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you that ye should not trust in the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Did ye receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the obedient ear of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun by 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 gives unto you the Spirit and does works of power among you, does he do it by the works of the law or by the obedient ear of faith?
6 Even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that those who are of faith, the same are the sons of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, evangelized Abraham in advance, saying, In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed. 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.
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 continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 11 But that no one 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 does the commandments shall live by them. 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs 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.