Galatians 3:1-14 - Justified By The Law, Or Justified By Faith?
1 O Unwise Galatians, who has cast a spell upon you, not to obey the truth, to whom before the eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand, crucified in you? 2 This only wish I to learn from you, Received ye the Spirit from the works of the law, or from the hearing of faith?. 3 Are ye so unwise? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now completed in the flesh? 4 Suffered ye so many things in vain? if yet also in vain. 5 He therefore furnishing you the Spirit, and working the powers in you, is it from the works of the law, or from the hearing of faith?
6 As Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice. 7 Know ye therefore that they of faith, these are sons of Abraham. 8 And the writing, foreseeing that of faith God justifies the nations, announced beforehand the good news to Abraham, That in thee shall all nations be praised. 9 So that they of faith are praised with faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it has been written, Cursed every one who remains not in all written in the book of the law to do them. 11 And that none is justified in the law before God, is manifest: for, The just shall live of faith. 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man having done them shall live in them. 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been a curse for us: for it has been written, Cursed every one hanging upon a tree: 14 That the praise of Abraham might be to the nations in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.