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12 But the law is not based on faith,[a] but the one who does the works of the law[b] will live by them.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:12 tn Grk “is not from faith.”
  2. Galatians 3:12 tn Grk “who does these things”; the referent (the works of the law, see 3:5) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  3. Galatians 3:12 sn A quotation from Lev 18:5. The phrase the works of the law is an editorial expansion on the Greek text (see previous note); it has been left as normal typeface to indicate it is not part of the OT text.