Galatians 3:1-14

21st Century King James Version

3 O foolish Galatians! Who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been clearly 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 hearing of faith?

³ Are ye so foolish? Having begun in 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 ministereth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you, doeth He it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

⁶ Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness.”

⁷ Know ye therefore that those who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached beforehand the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, “In thee shall all nations be blessed.”

⁹ So then, those who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

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

¹¹ But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”

¹² And the law is not of faith, but “The man who doeth them shall live in them.”

¹³ Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is every one who hangeth 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.