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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man"s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: