Galatians 3:11

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

12The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

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Cross References

Job 9:3If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Job 42:6Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Psalms 130:3If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Habakkuk 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Matthew Henry on Galatians 3:7-19

Justification by Faith. ( a. d. 56.) 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8 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. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is… Read the whole commentary →

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