Galatians 3:1-14 - Justified By The Law, Or Justified By Faith?
1 O senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was pictured as the crucified One? 2 I want to ask you only this one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by doing what the law commands, or by believing the message you heard? 3 Are you so senseless? Did you begin by the Spirit, but are now approaching perfection by fleshly means? 4 Have you suffered so much for nothing? If it really is for nothing. 5 Now when He supplies you with the Spirit and performs His wonder-works among you, does He do it because you do what the law commands, or because you believe the message that you heard --
6 just as "Abraham put his faith in God, and it was credited to him as right standing with God"? 7 So you see, it is the men of faith who are the real descendants of Abraham. 8 Because the Scripture foresaw that God would bring the heathen into right standing with Himself on condition of faith, He beforehand proclaimed the good news to Abraham in the promise, "It is through you that all the heathen will be blessed." 9 So the men of faith are blessed as partners with trusting Abraham.
10 For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them." 11 Now it is evident that through the law no man is brought into right standing with God, for "The man in right standing with God will live by faith," 12 and the law has nothing to do with faith, but it says, "It is the man who does these things that will live by doing them." 13 Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us -- for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who is hanged on a tree" -- 14 that the blessing promised to Abraham might through Jesus Christ come to the heathen, so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.