Galatians 3

¹O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

²This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

³Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

⁴Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

⁵He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

⁶Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

⁷Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

⁸And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

⁹So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

¹⁰For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

¹¹Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

¹²and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

¹³Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: