KJ3 Literal Translation
Galatians 3
1 He asks what moved them to leave the faith, and hang on the law? 6 They that believe are justified, 9 and blessed with Abraham.
1O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, to whom before your eyes Jesus Christ was portrayed afore among you being crucified?
2This only I desire to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of Law or by hearing of faith?
3Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being perfected in the flesh?
4Did you suffer so much vainly, if indeed it also was vainly?
5Therefore the One supplying the Spirit to you and working works of power in you, is it by works of Law or by hearing of faith?
6Even “as Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness,” Gen. 15:6
7know, therefore, that the ones of faith, these are sons of Abraham.
8And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, preached the gospel before to Abraham: “All the nations will be blessed” “in you.” Gen. 12:3
9So that the ones of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
10For as many as are out of works of Law, these are under a curse. For it is written, “Accursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things having been written in the book of the Law, to do them.” Deut. 27:26
11And that no one is justified by Law before God is clear because, “The just one shall live by faith.” Hab. 2:4
12But the Law is not of faith, but, “The man doing these things shall live in them.” Lev. 18:5
13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, “Accursed is everyone having been hung on a tree;” Deut. 21:23
14that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.
15Brothers, I speak according to man, a covenant having been ratified, even among mankind, no one annuls or adds to it.
16But the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his Seed (it does not say, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” which is Christ). Gen. 3:15; 21:12; 22:18, Rom. 9:7; Heb. 11:18
17And I say this, A covenant having been ratified before to Christ by God, the Law coming into being four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul the promise, so as to abolish it.
18For if the inheritance is of Law, it is no more of promise; but God has given it to Abraham through promise.
19Why the Law then? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the Seed should come, to whom it had been promised, being ordained through angels in a mediator’s hand.
20But the Mediator is not mediator of one, but God is one.
21Therefore is the Law against the promises of God? Let it not be! For if a law had been given which had been able to make alive, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.
22But the Scripture shut up together all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the ones believing.
23But before the coming of faith, we were guarded under Law, being shut up to the faith being about to be revealed.
24So that the Law has become a tutor of us until Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25But faith coming, we are no longer under a tutor;
26for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27For as many as were baptized into Christ, you put on Christ.
28There cannot be Jew nor Greek, there is no slave nor freeman, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29And if you are of Christ, then you are a seed of Abraham, and heirs according to promise.
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