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Galatians 3:11
11So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”
Galatians 3:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
- New International Version (NIV)Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
- New King James Version (NKJV)But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”
Context of Galatians 3:11
9So all who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith. 10But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.” So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” 12This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.” 13But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
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ὅτι δὲ ἐν νόμῳ οὐδεὶς δικαιοῦται παρὰ τῷ θεῷ δῆλον, ὅτι ὁ δίκαιος ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται·Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Butδέde · thenG1161
- thatὅτιhoti · that/since: sinceG3754
- no manοὐδείςoudeis · noneG3762
- is justifiedδικαιόωdikaioō · to justifyG1344
- byἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
- the lawνόμοςnomos · lawG3551
- in the sight ofπαράpara · from/with/besideG3844
- Godὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
- evidentδῆλοςdēlos · UrimG1212
- The justδίκαιοςdikaios · justG1342
- shall liveζάωzaō · to liveG2198
- byἐκek ex · out fromG1537
- faithπίστιςpistis · faithG4102
Cross-references for Galatians 3:11
- Galatians 2:16Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.”
- 1 Kings 8:46“If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to their land far away or near.
- Job 9:3If someone wanted to take God to court, would it be possible to answer him even once in a thousand times?
- Job 40:4“I am nothing—how could I ever find the answers? I will cover my mouth with my hand.
- Job 42:6I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”
- Psalms 19:12How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults.
- Psalms 130:3Lord, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive?
- Psalms 143:2Don’t put your servant on trial, for no one is innocent before you.
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.
- Isaiah 6:5Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”
- Isaiah 53:6All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
- Isaiah 64:6We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.
- James 3:2Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.
- 1 John 1:8If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.
- Revelation 5:9And they sang a new song with these words: “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
- Revelation 7:14And I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.
Commentaries on Galatians 3:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11But that no man is justified by the law - By the observance of the law, suppose he had even continued in all things that are written in it to do them, is evident; for the Prophet Habakkuk, Habakkuk 2:4, has declared, under the direct influence of the Spirit of God, The just shall live by faith; or, he who is just by faith shall live: therefore this justification comes not by works, or the observance of the law, but by faith.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11But that no man is justified - The argument which Paul has been pursuing he proceeds to confirm by an express declaration of the Bible. The argument is this: “It is impossible that a man should be justified by the Law, because God has appointed another way of justification.” But there cannot be two ways of obtaining life, and as he has appointed faith as the condition on which people shall live, he has precluded from them the possibility of obtaining…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-14Verses 6-14 The apostle proves the doctrine he had blamed the Galatians for rejecting; namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does from the example of Abraham, whose faith fastened upon the word and promise of God, and upon his believing he was owned and accepted of God as a righteous man. The Scripture is said to foresee, because the Holy Spirit that indited the Scripture did foresee. Through faith in the promise of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11Scripture makes it clear, even if the Galatians or false teachers did not understand, that circumcision is not required for non-Jewish believers. "The righteous will live by faith": Paul quotes Habakkuk 2:4, in which the prophet waits in faith for God's promise to come true.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. by the law--Greek, "IN the law." Both in and by are included. The syllogism in this verse and Ga 3:12, is, according to Scripture, "The just shall live by faith." But the law is not of faith, but of doing, or works (that is, does not make faith, but works, the conditional ground of justifying). Therefore "in," or "by the law, no man is justified before God" (whatever the case may be before men, Ro 4:2)--not even if he could, which he cannot, keep the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Galatians 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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