1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyesJesusChrist hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn from you, Received ye 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 is yet in vain.
5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he this by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
10 For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Accursed is every one that 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 that doeth them shall live by them.
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Accursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it is but a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no man disannulleth or addeth to it.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
17 And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of no effect.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means: for if there had been a law given which could give life, verily righteousness would have been by the law.
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of JesusChrist might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our school-master to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after faith is come, we are no longer under a school-master.