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Galatians 3

He rebuketh them sharply, 2 And proveth by divers reasons that justification is by faith, 6 As appeareth by the example of Abraham, 10.19.24 And by the office, and the end, both of the Law, 11.25 And of faith.
1.O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth, to whom Jesus Christ before awas described in your sight, and among you crucified?
2.This only would I learn of you, Received ye the bSpirit by the works of the Law, or by the hearing of cfaith
3.Are ye so foolish, that after ye have begun in the Spirit, ye would now dbe made perfect by the eflesh?
4.Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if so be it be even in vain.
5.He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it through the works of the Law, or by the hearing of faith preached?
6.Yea rather as Abraham believed God, and it was *imputed to him for righteousness.
7.Know ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8.For the Scripture foreseeing, that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, *In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.
9.So then they which be of faith, are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10.For as many as are of the fworks of the Law, are under the curse: for it is written, *Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the Law, to do them.
11.And that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God, it is evident: *for the just shall live by faith.
12.And the gLaw is not of faith: but *the man that shall do those things, shall live in them.
13.Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, when he was made a curse for us (for it is written, *Cursed is every one that hangeth on tree)
14.That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the h promise of the Spirit through faith.
15.Brethren, iI speak as men do, *Though it be but a man’s covenant when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate it, or kaddeth any thing thereto.
16.Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to the seeds, as speaking of many: but, And to thy seed, as of one, which lis Christ.
17.And this I say, that the Law which was four hundred and thirty years after, can not disannul the covenant that was confirmed afore of God in respect of Christ, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18.For if the inheritance be of the Law, it is no more by the promise, but God gave it unto Abraham by promise.
19.Wherefore then serveth the Law? It was added because of the mtransgressions, till the seed came unto them which the promise was made: and it was ordained by nAngels in the hand of a Mediator.
20.Now a Mediator is not a Mediator of oone: but God is pone.
21.Is the Law then against the promise of God? God forbid: for if there had been a Law given which could have given life, surely righteousness should have been by the Law.
22.But the Scripture hath *concluded qall under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ should be given to them that believe.
23.But before rfaith came, we were kept under the Law, and shut up unto the faith, which should afterward be revealed.
24.Wherefore the *Law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.
25.But after that faith is come, we are no longer under sa schoolmaster.
26.For ye are all the sons of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.
27.*For all ye that are tbaptised into Christ, have put on Christ.
28.There is neither Jew nor Grecian: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female: for ye are all uone in Christ Jesus.
29.And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs by promise.

Notes

1-a.
To whom Christ was so lively preached, as if his lively image were set before your eyes, or else had been crucified among you.
2-b.
Meaning the gifts of the Spirit.
2-c.
That is, the doctrine of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, as chap. 1.22.
3-d.
The false apostles taught that Christ profited nothing, except they were circum- cised, and that the Law was the perfection, and Christ’s doctrine only the rudiments thereunto.
3-e.
And ceremonies of the Law?
6-*.
Gen. 15.6, Rom. 4.3, Jam. 2.23.
8-*.
Gen. 12.3, Eccle. 44.21, Act. 3.25.
10-*.
Deu. 27.26.
10-f.
Which think to be justified by them.
11-*.
Habak. 2.4, Rom. 1.17, Ebr. 10.38.
12-*.
Lev. 18.5.
12-g.
The Law pronounces not them just, which believe, but which work, and so condemns all them which in all points do not fulfil it.
13-*.
Deut. 21.23.
14-h.
Which is the Gospel.
15-*.
Ebr. 9.17.
15-i.
I will use a common example that you may be ashamed to attribute less unto God, then to such covenants, which one man makes to another.
15-k.
No more is the promise or covenant of God abrogate by the Law, nor yet is the Law added to the promise to take any thing away that was superfluous, or to supply anything that wanted.
16-l.
Which declares that the Jews and Gentiles are both partakers of the promise, because they are joined in Christ which is this blessed seed.
19-m.
That sin might appear and be made more abundant, and so all to be shut up under sin.
19-n.
Who as ministers gave it to Moses by the authority of Christ.
20-o.
But serves both for the Jews and Gentiles to join them to God.
20-p.
Constant and always like himself.
22-*.
Rom. 3.9.
22-q.
Both men and all their works.
23-r.
The full revelation of things which were hid under the shadows of the Law
24-*.
Rom. 10.4.
25-s.
Not that the doctrine of the Law is abolished, but the condemnation thereof is taken away by faith.
27-*.
Rom. 6.3.
27-t.
So that Baptism succeeds Circumcision, and so through Christ both Jew and Gentile is saved.
28-u.
As all one man.