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| | Gal 3:1 | O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
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| | Gal 3:2 | Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
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| | Gal 3:3 | Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?
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| | Gal 3:4 | Did you experience so many things in vain? --if it really is in vain.
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| | Gal 3:5 | Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
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| | Gal 3:6 | Thus Abraham "believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."
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| | Gal 3:7 | So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
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| | Gal 3:8 | And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
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| | Gal 3:9 | So then, those who are men of faith are blessed with Abraham who had faith.
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| | Gal 3:10 | For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them."
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| | Gal 3:11 | Now it is evident that no man is justified before God by the law; for "He who through faith is righteous shall live";
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| | Gal 3:12 | but the law does not rest on faith, for "He who does them shall live by them."
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| | Gal 3:13 | Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us--for it is written, "Cursed be every one who hangs on a tree" --
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| | Gal 3:14 | that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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| | Gal 3:15 | To give a human example, brethren: no one annuls even a man's will, or adds to it, once it has been ratified.
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| | Gal 3:16 | Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many; but, referring to one, "And to your offspring," which is Christ.
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| | Gal 3:17 | This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
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| | Gal 3:18 | For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
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| | Gal 3:19 | Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained by angels through an intermediary.
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| | Gal 3:20 | Now an intermediary implies more than one; but God is one.
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| | Gal 3:21 | Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
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| | Gal 3:22 | But the scripture consigned all things to sin, that what was promised to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
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| | Gal 3:23 | Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.
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| | Gal 3:24 | So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.
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| | Gal 3:25 | But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian;
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| | Gal 3:26 | for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
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| | Gal 3:27 | For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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| | Gal 3:28 | There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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| | Gal 3:29 | And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
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