and delivered up himself
for me. (21)I do not set at nought the grace of God; for if
righteousness came by the law, truly Christ hath died in vain.

CHAP. III.

O INFATUATED Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey
the truth? To whom Jesus Christ has been described, as before your
eyes, crucified among you. (2)This only would I learn of you, Received
ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or from hearing of the faith?
(3)Are ye so senseless? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made
perfect in the flesh? (4)have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it
be yet in vain.

(5)He therefore who ministereth to you a supply of the Spirit, and
powerfully worketh miracles among you, doth he it by the works of the
law, or by the hearing of the faith? (6)as Abraham believed in God, and
it was imputed to him for righteousness. (7)Know then that they who are
of faith, these are the children of Abraham. (8)And the scripture
foreseeing that by faith God would justify the Gentiles, preached the
gospel before unto Abraham, saying, that "In thee shall all the nations
be blessed[108]." (9)Wherefore they who are of faith are blessed with
believing Abraham.

(10)For as many as are of the works of the law, are under a curse: for
it is written, "Cursed is every one who continueth not in all the
things written in the book of the law to do them[109]." (11)But that by
the law no man is justified before God is evident: because "The just by
faith shall live[110]." (12)Now the law is not by faith: but "The man
that doeth these things shall live by them[111]." (13)Christ hath
redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for
it is written, "Cursed is every one who is hanged on a tree[112]:"
(14)that unto the Gentiles the benediction pronounced on Abraham might
come by Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
by faith.

(15)Brethren, I speak humanly; to use a similitude, a man's testament,
if it be passed in legal form, no man can vacate, or add thereunto.
(16)But to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith
not, To seeds, as unto many persons; but as to an individual, and to
thy seed, which is Christ. (17)Now this I say, the covenant confirmed
of God to Christ, the law, which was given three hundred and thirty
years after, cannot disannul, so as to vacate the promise. (18)For if
the inheritance is of the law, it is no more by promise; but to Abraham
God gave it free