Faith Brings Righteousness

Scripture: Galatians 3:1-14 

“Galatians 3:1   O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Galatians 3:2 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Galatians 3:4 Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Galatians 3:5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— Galatians 3:6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

Galatians 3:7 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. Galatians 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” Galatians 3:9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

Galatians 3:10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Galatians 3:11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” Galatians 3:12 But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— Galatians 3:14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.” (Galatians 3:1–14 ESV)