Galatians 3

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
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?	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?
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?	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?
3 Having begun in the Spirit, can you be so stupid as to end in the flesh?	3 Are you so foolish, that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?
4 Can al the favours you have received have had no effect at al -- if there real y has been no effect?	4 Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.
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?	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?
6 Abraham, you remember, put his faith in God, and this was reckoned to him as uprightness.	6 As it is written: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
7 Be sure, then, that it is people of faith who are the children of Abraham.	7 Know ye therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
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.	8 And the scripture, foreseeing, that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9 So it is people of faith who receive the same blessing as Abraham, the man of faith.	9 Therefore they that are of faith, shall be blessed with faithful Abraham.
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.	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.
11 Now it is obvious that nobody is reckoned as upright in God's sight by the Law, since the upright willlive through faith;	11 But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: because the just man liveth by faith.
12 and the Law is based not on faith but on the principle, whoever complies with it will find life in it.	12 But the law is not of faith: but, He that doth those things, shall live in them.
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by being cursed for our sake since scripture says:Anyone hanged is accursed,	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:
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.	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.
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.	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.
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.	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.
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.	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.
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.	18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise.
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.	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.
20 Now there can be an intermediary only between two parties, yet God is one.	20 Now a mediator is not of one: but God is one.
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.	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.
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.	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.
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.	23 But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up, unto that faith which was to be revealed.
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.	24 Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But now that faith has come we are no longer under a slave looking after us;	25 But after the faith is come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.
26 for al of you are the children of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus,	26 For you are all the children of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.
27 since every one of you that has been baptised has been clothed in Christ.	27 For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.
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.	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.
29 And simply by being Christ's, you are that progeny of Abraham, the heirs named in the promise.	29 And if you be Christ's, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.