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Galatians 3:11You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:7-82 Cor 11:3Gal 1:6Rev 2:201 Pet 4:17Gal 3:3Gal 4:9Heb 11:81 Pet 1:222 Pet 2:18
Galatians 3:22The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:16-17Gal 3:14Acts 15:8Eph 1:13-14Gal 3:5Acts 8:15Heb 2:4Acts 19:2-6Acts 2:38Acts 10:44-47
Galatians 3:33Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:4-8Gal 4:7-10Heb 7:16-19Heb 9:9-10Gal 6:12-14
Galatians 3:44Have you suffered so many things for nothing?—if indeed it was for nothing.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 John 1:81 Cor 15:2Heb 10:32-392 Pet 2:20-22Ezek 18:24Heb 6:4-6
Galatians 3:55Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:2Acts 14:9-10Acts 19:11-12Acts 14:31 Cor 1:4-52 Cor 13:32 Cor 10:42 Cor 12:12Rom 15:191 Cor 12:10
Galatians 3:66Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:6Rom 4:21-22Jas 2:23Rom 4:3-6Rom 4:24Rom 4:9-11Gal 3:9Rom 9:32-332 Cor 5:19-21
Galatians 3:77so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:9Rom 9:7-8Gal 3:26-29Ps 100:3Rom 4:24John 8:39Luke 19:9Rom 4:11-16
Galatians 3:88And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:3Gen 22:18Gen 28:14Gen 18:18Gen 26:4Heb 4:2Rom 3:28-30Gal 3:22Acts 15:15-18Gal 3:16
Galatians 3:99So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:29Rom 4:16Gal 4:28Rom 4:24Rom 4:11Gal 3:14Gal 3:7-8
Galatians 3:1010For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 27:26Rom 8:7Rom 3:19-20Deut 11:26-28Jas 2:9-11Jer 11:3Rom 4:15Gal 2:16Rom 6:23Ezek 18:4
Galatians 3:1111Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:4Rom 1:17Heb 10:38Gal 2:16Eccl 7:20Ps 130:3-4Isa 53:6Job 42:6Rev 5:91 John 1:8-10
Galatians 3:1212But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 18:5Rom 10:5-6Neh 9:29Rom 4:14Ezek 20:11Luke 10:25-28Rom 4:16Rom 4:4-5Ezek 20:13Matt 19:17
Galatians 3:1313Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree ”)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:24Deut 21:23Heb 9:12Heb 9:151 Pet 1:18-21Heb 10:4-10Rev 5:9Gal 4:5Matt 26:28Rom 3:24-26
Galatians 3:1414in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:28-291 Cor 12:13Eph 2:18Ezek 36:26-27Gal 3:2Ezek 11:19Acts 2:33Rom 8:26-27Gen 12:2-31 Pet 1:22
Galatians 3:1515Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:17Rom 6:19Rom 3:5
Galatians 3:1616Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say, “and to the descendants,” referring to many, but “and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:7-8Rom 4:13Luke 1:55Gen 22:17-18Gal 3:27-29Rom 4:16Gen 12:7Gen 26:3-4Gen 28:13-14Gal 3:8
Galatians 3:1717What I am saying is this: The law that came 430 years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:40-41Gen 15:13Heb 11:39-40Rom 4:13-142 Cor 1:20Heb 6:13-18Rom 3:31 Cor 1:17Col 2:4Gal 3:15
Galatians 3:1818For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 4:13-16Gal 2:21Heb 6:12-15Ps 105:42Gal 3:29Luke 1:54-55Luke 1:72-73Ps 105:6-12Rom 8:17Gal 3:10
Galatians 3:1919Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:53Heb 2:2Rom 7:7-13Gal 3:161 Tim 1:8-9Rom 5:20-21Rom 4:15Rom 3:19-20Acts 7:38Deut 5:5
Galatians 3:2020Now an intermediary is not for one party alone, but God is one.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 2:5Deut 6:4Heb 8:6Heb 9:15Job 9:33Heb 12:24Rom 3:29-30Gal 3:17Gen 15:18Acts 12:20
Galatians 3:2121Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 2:21Rom 9:31Rom 3:20-22Gal 2:19Rom 10:3-6Gal 2:17Rom 3:31Rom 7:7-13Matt 5:17-20Rom 3:4
Galatians 3:2222But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given—because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ—to those who believe.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 11:32Heb 9:15John 11:25-26Gal 3:231 John 2:25John 3:361 John 3:23-24Rom 3:9-20Rom 5:20-21John 12:46
Galatians 3:2323Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:18Gal 3:24-25Gal 3:19Rom 11:32Rom 6:14-15Rom 3:191 Pet 1:11-12Gal 4:1-51 Cor 9:20-21Heb 12:2
Galatians 3:2424Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:4Acts 13:38-39Heb 10:1-14Rom 7:24-25Gal 2:16Matt 5:17-18Col 2:17Gal 2:19Gal 3:25Gal 4:2-3
Galatians 3:2525But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 6:14Rom 7:4Heb 10:15-18Heb 7:11-19Heb 8:3-13Gal 4:1-6
Galatians 3:2626For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 1:52 Cor 6:18John 1:12-131 John 3:1-2Gal 4:5-6Rom 8:14-17Phil 2:15Rev 21:7Eph 5:1John 20:17
Galatians 3:2727For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 13:141 Cor 12:13Rom 6:3-41 Pet 3:21Eph 4:24Col 3:10Acts 2:38Col 2:10-12Job 29:14Isa 61:10
Galatians 3:2828There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female —for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 12:12-13Col 3:11Rom 3:29-30Gal 5:6Rom 10:12-15John 10:16Eph 2:13-22Eph 4:4Rom 9:24Rom 1:16
Galatians 3:2929And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 3:6Rom 9:7-8Gal 3:7Rom 8:17Gal 4:22-31Rom 4:16-21Gal 4:7Titus 3:7Jas 2:5Rev 21:7
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