Galatians 3

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you?	1 You stupid people in Galatia! After you have had a clear picture of Jesus Christ crucified, right in front ofyour eyes, who has put a spell on you?
2 This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?	2 There is only one thing I should like you to tel me: How was it that you received the Spirit -- was it bythe practice of the Law, or by believing in the message you heard?
3 Are you so foolish, that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?	3 Having begun in the Spirit, can you be so stupid as to end in the flesh?
4 Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.	4 Can al the favours you have received have had no effect at al -- if there real y has been no effect?
5 He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you; doth he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of the faith?	5 Would you say, then, that he who so lavishly sends the Spirit to you, and causes the miracles amongyou, is doing this through your practice of the Law or because you believed the message you heard?
6 As it is written: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.	6 Abraham, you remember, put his faith in God, and this was reckoned to him as uprightness.
7 Know ye therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.	7 Be sure, then, that it is people of faith who are the children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing, that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.	8 And it was because scripture foresaw that God would give saving justice to the gentiles through faith,that it announced the future gospel to Abraham in the words: Al nations wil be blessed in you.
9 Therefore they that are of faith, shall be blessed with faithful Abraham.	9 So it is people of faith who receive the same blessing as Abraham, the man of faith.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law, are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is every one, that abideth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law to do them.	10 On the other hand, all those who depend on the works of the Law are under a curse, since scripturesays: Accursed be he who does not make what is written in the book of the Law effective, by putting it intopractice.
11 But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: because the just man liveth by faith.	11 Now it is obvious that nobody is reckoned as upright in God's sight by the Law, since the upright willlive through faith;
12 But the law is not of faith: but, He that doth those things, shall live in them.	12 and the Law is based not on faith but on the principle, whoever complies with it will find life in it.
13 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:	13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by being cursed for our sake since scripture says:Anyone hanged is accursed,
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus: that we may receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.	14 so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the gentiles in Christ Jesus, and so that we mightreceive the promised Spirit through faith.
15 Brethren (I speak after the manner of man,) yet a man's testament, if it be confirmed, no man despiseth, nor addeth to it.	15 To put it in human terms, my brothers: even when a will is only a human one, once it has been ratifiednobody can cancel it or add more provisions to it.
16 To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not, And to his seeds, as of many: but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.	16 Now the promises were addressed to Abraham and to his progeny. The words were not and to hisprogenies in the plural, but in the singular; and to your progeny, which means Christ.
17 Now this I say, that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years, doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect.	17 What I am saying is this: once a wil had been long ago ratified by God, the Law, coming four hundredand thirty years later, could not abolish it and so nul ify its promise.
18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise.	18 You see, if the inheritance comes by the Law, it no longer comes through a promise; but it was by apromise that God made his gift to Abraham.
19 Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come, to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.	19 Then what is the purpose of the Law? It was added to deal with crimes until the 'progeny' to whom thepromise had been made should come; and it was promulgated through angels, by the agency of an intermediary.
20 Now a mediator is not of one: but God is one.	20 Now there can be an intermediary only between two parties, yet God is one.
21 Was the law then against the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law.	21 Is the Law contrary, then, to God's promises? Out of the question! If the Law that was given had beencapable of giving life, then certainly saving justice would have come from the Law.
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise, by the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe.	22 As it is, scripture makes no exception when it says that sin is master everywhere; so the promise canbe given only by faith in Jesus Christ to those who have this faith.
23 But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up, unto that faith which was to be revealed.	23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the Law, locked up to wait for the faith whichwould eventual y be revealed to us.
24 Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in Christ, that we might be justified by faith.	24 So the Law was serving as a slave to look after us, to lead us to Christ, so that we could be justified byfaith.
25 But after the faith is come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.	25 But now that faith has come we are no longer under a slave looking after us;
26 For you are all the children of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.	26 for al of you are the children of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus,
27 For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.	27 since every one of you that has been baptised has been clothed in Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.	28 There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither slave nor freeman, there can be neithermale nor female -- for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you be Christ's, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.	29 And simply by being Christ's, you are that progeny of Abraham, the heirs named in the promise.