Galatians 3
Douay-Rheims 1899
1O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you?
2This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3Are you so foolish, that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?
4Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.
5He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you; doth he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of the faith?
6As it is written: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
7Know ye therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8And the scripture, foreseeing, that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9Therefore they that are of faith, shall be blessed with 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, that abideth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: because the just man liveth by faith.
12But the law is not of faith: but, He that doth those things, shall live in them.
13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: