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Galatians 3 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Justification by Faith
Justification by Faith
(cf. Rom. 4:1–25 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:1 - O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth,[fn] before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you[fn] as crucified?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:2 - This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:3 - Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:4 - Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:5 - Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:6 - just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:7 - Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:8 - And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:9 - So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
The Law Brings a Curse

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:10 - For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:11 - But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:12 - Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:13 - Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”[fn]),

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:14 - that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
The Changeless Promise
(cf. Gen. 12:1–3 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:15 - Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:16 - Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,”[fn] who is Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:17 - And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ,[fn] that it should make the promise of no effect.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:18 - For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Purpose of the Law

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:19 - What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:20 - Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:21 - Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:22 - But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:23 - But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:24 - Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:25 - But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Sons and Heirs

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:26 - For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:27 - For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 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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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:29 - And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
NU-Text omits that you should not obey the truth.
NU-Text omits among you.
Genesis 15:6
Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14
Deuteronomy 27:26
Habakkuk 2:4
Leviticus 18:5
Deuteronomy 21:23
Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7
NU-Text omits in Christ.
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