Study Desk

For if we, who are Jews by nature, and are not sinners of the Gentiles,

because we know that a man is not made just by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus the Messiah; even we have believed in Jesus the Messiah, in order to be made just by faith in the Messiah, and not by the works of the law: for, by the deeds of the law, no flesh is made just.

For if I should build up again the things I had demolished, I should show myself to be a transgressor of the precept.

For I, by the law, have become dead to the law, that I might live to God; and I am crucified with the Messiah.

And henceforth it is no more I who live, but the Messiah liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I do not spurn the grace of God. For if righteousness is by means of the law, the Messiah died in vain.

O ye Galatians, deficient in understanding ! Who hath fascinated you? For lo, Jesus the Messiah hath been portrayed as in a picture, crucified before your eyes.

In like manner Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

For, because God knew beforehand that the Gentiles would be made just by faith, he preannounced it to Abraham; as saith the holy scripture, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

For they who are of the deeds of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who shall not do every thing written in this law.

But the Messiah hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, and hath been a curse for us; (for it is written, Cursed is everyone that is hanged on a tree;)

Is the law then opposed to the promise of God? Far be it. For if a law had been given, which could make alive, certainly, righteousness would have been by the law.

The law, therefore, was a monitor for us unto the Messiah, that we might become just by faith.

For ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus the Messiah.

For they who have been baptized into the Messiah, have put on the Messiah.

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free-born, neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Jesus the Messiah.

For then, when ye knew not God, ye served them who in their nature are not gods.

For ye know, that under the infirmity of my flesh, I at first announced the gospel to you;

Where then is your blessedness? For I testify of you, that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.

They are zealous towards you, yet not for good; but they wish to shut you up, that ye may be zealous towards them.