Galatians 3:12

American Standard Version (1901)

and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

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  • Lev 18:5 : 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.
  • Rom 10:5-6 : 5 For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:)
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
  • Rom 4:14 : 14 For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:
  • Neh 9:29 : 29 and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
  • Ezek 20:11 : 11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
  • Ezek 20:13 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
  • Matt 19:17 : 17 And he said unto him, Why askest thou me concerning that which is good? One there is who is good: but if thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.
  • Luke 10:25-28 : 25 And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and made trial of him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 26 And he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? 27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. 28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
  • Rom 4:4-5 : 4 Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
  • Rom 9:30-32 : 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law. 32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

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  • Gal 3:9-11
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    9So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

    10For 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.

    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

  • Rom 10:4-6
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    4For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.

    5For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

    6But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:)

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

    13for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

    14(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;

  • Gal 3:21-25
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    21Is 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.

    22But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

    23But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

    24So that the law is become our tutor [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

    25But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

    28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Gal 2:16
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    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

  • Rom 3:30-31
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    30if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

    31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

  • Rom 3:20-22
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    20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.

    21But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

    22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

  • Rom 4:13-16
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    13For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

    14For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

    15for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

    16For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

  • Gal 3:5
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    5He 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?

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.

  • Rom 2:27
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    27and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

  • Gal 3:13
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    13Christ 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:

  • Rom 8:4
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    4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

  • Acts 13:39
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    39and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

    31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law.

  • Jas 2:24
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    24Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

  • Gal 3:17-18
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    17Now 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.

    18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.

  • Rom 4:5
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    5But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

  • Gal 5:3
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    3Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

  • Gal 3:2
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    2This only would I learn from you. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

  • Gal 5:18
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    18But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

  • Rom 7:6-7
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    6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

  • Rom 5:13
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    13for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

  • Lev 18:5
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    5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.