{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "galatians", "chapter": 3 }, "data": { "n": 3, "bookSlug": "galatians", "bookCode": "GAL", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "GAL-3:1", "verseRef": "GAL.3.1", "text": "O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "GAL-3:2", "verseRef": "GAL.3.2", "text": "This only would I learn from you. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "GAL-3:3", "verseRef": "GAL.3.3", "text": "Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "GAL-3:4", "verseRef": "GAL.3.4", "text": "Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "GAL-3:5", "verseRef": "GAL.3.5", "text": "He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "GAL-3:6", "verseRef": "GAL.3.6", "text": "Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "GAL-3:7", "verseRef": "GAL.3.7", "text": "Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "GAL-3:8", "verseRef": "GAL.3.8", "text": "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, [saying,] In thee shall all the nations be blessed." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "GAL-3:9", "verseRef": "GAL.3.9", "text": "So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "GAL-3:10", "verseRef": "GAL.3.10", "text": "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 things that are written in the book of the law, to do them." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "GAL-3:11", "verseRef": "GAL.3.11", "text": "Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "GAL-3:12", "verseRef": "GAL.3.12", "text": "and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "GAL-3:13", "verseRef": "GAL.3.13", "text": "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "GAL-3:14", "verseRef": "GAL.3.14", "text": "that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "GAL-3:15", "verseRef": "GAL.3.15", "text": "Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man`s covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "GAL-3:16", "verseRef": "GAL.3.16", "text": "Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "GAL-3:17", "verseRef": "GAL.3.17", "text": "Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "GAL-3:18", "verseRef": "GAL.3.18", "text": "For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "GAL-3:19", "verseRef": "GAL.3.19", "text": "What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; [and it was] ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "GAL-3:20", "verseRef": "GAL.3.20", "text": "Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one; but God is one." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "GAL-3:21", "verseRef": "GAL.3.21", "text": "Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "GAL-3:22", "verseRef": "GAL.3.22", "text": "But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "GAL-3:23", "verseRef": "GAL.3.23", "text": "But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "GAL-3:24", "verseRef": "GAL.3.24", "text": "So that the law is become our tutor [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "GAL-3:25", "verseRef": "GAL.3.25", "text": "But now faith that is come, we are no longer under a tutor." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "GAL-3:26", "verseRef": "GAL.3.26", "text": "For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "GAL-3:27", "verseRef": "GAL.3.27", "text": "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "GAL-3:28", "verseRef": "GAL.3.28", "text": "There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one [man] in Christ Jesus." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "GAL-3:29", "verseRef": "GAL.3.29", "text": "And if ye are Christ`s, then are ye Abraham`s seed, heirs according to promise." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/galatians/chapters/3", "book": "/v1/library/books/galatians/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/galatians/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }