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Galatians 3:1

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 880

  • Publications Index

    it-1 880;

    w82 11/15 28; ad 614

Galatians 3:2

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  • *

    3:2 Lit. deeds of law

  • *

    3:2 Lit. of faith-hearing

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  • Publications Index

    w69 665; w63 108; w62 215; w61 342, 432; w57 391, 437

Galatians 3:3

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  • Publications Index

    w68 528

Galatians 3:5

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    3:5 Or works miracles in you

  • *

    3:5 Lit. deeds of law

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  • Publications Index

    w65 687

Galatians 3:6

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  • Publications Index

    w65 687

Galatians 3:7

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  • *

    3:7 Lit. that the ones of faith, these are

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  • Publications Index

    po 163; w65 493, 687; tf 180

Galatians 3:8

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  • Research Guide

    Worldwide Security, pp. 86-87

  • Publications Index

    ws 86-87;

    w74 330; po 85-86; w65 687; w49 101; na46 16; w43 174; tf 180; w33 189

Galatians 3:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Worldwide Security, p. 87

  • Publications Index

    ws 87;

    w74 330

Galatians 3:10

Footnotes

  • *

    3:10 Lit. as are out of deeds of law

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 557-558, 1192-1193

  • Publications Index

    it-1 557-558, 1193;

    ad 402; w70 735-736; im 278; w64 198

Galatians 3:11

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    3:11 Or that nobody is justified by the law in

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Jehovah’s Day, pp. 187-188

  • Publications Index

    jd 187-188;

    w73 437; im 278; g63 12/22 6; w62 305

Galatians 3:12

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  • Publications Index

    cj 71; im 278

Galatians 3:13

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    3:13 Paul says is accursed in his Greek; but he knew the text in the Hebrew, which, literally translated, says either is a curse of God or is an insult to God

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 557-558, 1192-1193

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 248, 300-301, 1117

    Bible Teach, p. 205

    Awake!,

    8/8/1988, pp. 26-27

  • Publications Index

    it-1 557-558, 1193; it-2 248, 300-301, 1117; bh 205; g88 8/8 27;

    sl 75-76; po 159; g74 9/22 28; w72 691; w71 274; ad 1063, 1609; w70 735-736; li 98; im 278; g63 1/8 28; g63 4/8 28; ns 264; pa 144; w57 166; rm 148; w39 152; s 186; w37 232; w34 101; jh 144; w33 348

Galatians 3:14

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    3:14 Lit. receive the promise of the Spirit

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  • Publications Index

    w65 687; im 278; w39 152; s 186

Galatians 3:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    7/2022, p. 16

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 888

    “All Scripture,” p. 18

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/1989, p. 12

    Live Forever, pp. 117-118

  • Publications Index

    w22.07 16; it-2 888; si 18; w89 2/1 12; pe 118;

    w79 2/1 7-8; w74 330; g72 10/22 14; ad 1465; li 110; w65 687; g64 12/22 28; w63 173, 175, 537; w62 140; w61 168; pa 53; rm 262; na46 16; mk 10; w43 264; tf 180; w38 333; w34 101; jh 136; w33 158

Galatians 3:17

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 29, 460, 522, 776-777

    “All Scripture,” pp. 219-220, 294-295

  • Publications Index

    it-1 29, 460, 522, 776-777; si 220, 294-295;

    po 106, 112; ad 23, 335; li 31; w53 159; ki 98; tf 149

Galatians 3:18

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    3:18 Var. is through a law

Galatians 3:19

Footnotes

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    3:19 Lit. should come, prescribed (the Greek grammar shows that the law, not the Seed, was prescribed)

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Close to Jehovah, p. 193

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 523, 549

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 967

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/1989, p. 13

    Worldwide Security, pp. 75-80

  • Publications Index

    cl 193; it-1 523, 549; it-2 967; w89 2/1 13; ws 75-80;

    uw 147; w79 11/15 20; g79 7/8 11; w73 580-581; w72 682; g64 9/8 7; w62 746; g62 8/8 27; ns 109; w60 255; w59 681; nh 175; w49 71; w48 151; w34 103, 148, 199; jh 148

Galatians 3:20

Footnotes

  • *

    3:20 Lit. is not of one

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 522-523

  • Publications Index

    it-1 522;

    w72 682; im 268; w48 187

Galatians 3:21

Footnotes

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    3:21 Var. to the promises

  • *

    3:21 Var. be an outcome of the law

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  • Publications Index

    w34 103

Galatians 3:22

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    3:22 Lit. as the outcome of faith in Jesus Christ the promise might

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 562

  • Publications Index

    it-1 562;

    ad 405

Galatians 3:23

Footnotes

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    3:23 Lit. shut up to the faith

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 562

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2008, p. 20

    9/15/1991, pp. 12-13

  • Publications Index

    it-1 562; w08 3/1 20; w91 9/15 12-13;

    g72 11/22 6; ad 405; w65 648; w62 756

Galatians 3:24

Footnotes

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    3:24 The word translated conductor means a servant employed to escort a boy to school or elsewhere

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Close to Jehovah, p. 193

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1000

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1134

    The Watchtower,

    4/15/2008, p. 29

    3/1/2008, pp. 18-21

    3/15/2003, p. 21

    6/1/2002, p. 15

    9/15/1991, pp. 12-13

    2/1/1989, p. 13

  • Publications Index

    cl 193; it-1 1000; it-2 1134; w08 3/1 18-21; w08 4/15 29; w03 3/15 21; w02 6/1 15; w91 9/15 12-13; w89 2/1 13;

    w83 8/15 15; uw 147; w74 17; w73 580-581; w72 127; g72 11/22 7-8; ad 687, 1621; w65 648; w61 43; w59 681; pa 81; w57 390; w54 251; nh 175

Galatians 3:25

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 606, 1134

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/2003, p. 21

    9/15/1991, pp. 12-13

  • Publications Index

    it-2 606, 1134; w03 3/15 21; w91 9/15 12-13;

    w72 127; g72 11/22 7-8; ad 1621; w65 648; w61 43; w57 390

Galatians 3:26

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w80 7/15 24-25; w73 527; w65 687; w63 175; w46 150; na46 16

Galatians 3:27

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w80 7/15 24-25; g62 3/8 28

Galatians 3:28

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1196

    The Watchtower (Study),

    8/2017, p. 23

    Awake!,

    7/8/1987, pp. 22-23

  • Publications Index

    it-2 1196; w17.08 23; g87 7/8 22-23;

    w81 1/15 29; w80 7/15 24-25; g74 10/8 19; w73 527; w71 570; li 110; w64 180; w63 140, 709; g62 1/22 7; g62 9/8 27; w60 718; w57 711; nh 242; w52 94; el 155; na46 16; w34 119; jh 178

Galatians 3:29

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/1998, pp. 14-15

  • Publications Index

    w98 2/1 14-15;

    w84 2/15 31; w84 9/1 10; w81 1/15 27-28; w80 1/15 13; w80 7/15 24-25; w72 172; w65 687; w64 180, 679; g64 12/22 28; w63 174, 538; g63 4/8 4; w62 39, 140; w61 168; ns 281, 361; rm 262; w49 73; w46 20; na46 16; wl 95

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The Bible in Living English
Galatians 3:1-29

Galatians

3 You stupid Galatians, who hypnotized you, you who had had it advertised before your eyes that Jesus Christ was crucified? 2** I want to find out this one thing from you: was it as the outcome of deeds in observance of the law that you received the Spirit or was it as the outcome of listening in faith? 3 Are you so stupid as this? when you began by Spirit are you now finishing by flesh? 4 Did you undergo so much for nothing?—if for nothing it was! 5** Does he who furnishes the Spirit to you, then, and who works miracles among you, do it as the outcome of deeds in observance of the law or as the outcome of listening in faith? 6 As Abraham “believed God, and it was counted as righteousness for him.” 7* Know, then, that it is the men of faith who are sons of Abraham. 8 And the text, foreseeing that God is justifying the nations as the outcome of faith, gave Abraham the anticipatory gospel message “In you all the nations shall be blessed,” 9 so that the men of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. 10* For as many as are on the basis of deeds in observance of the law are under a curse; for it says “Accursed is everyone who does not persist in everything written in the book of the law to live up to it.” 11* And that in the law nobody is justified in God’s presence is obvious, because “the righteous man shall have life by virtue of faith” 12 and the law is not by virtue of faith but “he who practices them shall have life by them.” 13* Christ bought us off from the curse of the law, becoming a curse for us (because it says “anyone hanging on wood is accursed”), 14* that in Jesus Christ Abraham’s blessing might be on the nations, that we might receive the promised gift of the Spirit through faith.

15 Brothers, I speak from a human point of view; it is the same with a human engagement: when it has been validated, nobody ignores it or adds new conditions to it. 16 But the promise was uttered to Abraham “and his seed”—he does not say “and seeds” as referring to many, but, as referring to one, “and your seed,” who is Christ. 17 And this is what I am saying: when an engagement had been previously validated by God, the law that came into existence four hundred and thirty years later could not invalidate it so as to supersede the promise. 18* For if the inheritance is on the basis of a law it is no longer on the basis of a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by a promise.

19* How about the law then? It was added with a view to transgressions, until the Seed to whom the promise was made should come, and was prescribed through angels by the hand of an intermediary. 20* But an intermediary is not the intermediary of one. But God is one. 21** So is the law in antagonism to God’s promises? away with the thought! For if there had been given a law that could bring life, righteousness would really be by the law; 22* but the text has shut up everything under sin in order that as the outcome of faith in Jesus Christ the fulfillment of the promise might be given to those who believe.

23* But before faith came we were kept in custody under the law, shut up to be ready for the faith that was going to be revealed, 24* so that the law has been our conductor to Christ in order that we might be justified on the basis of faith. 25 But now that faith has come we are no longer under a conductor.

26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For all you who have been baptized to Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ; 28 there is no such thing as Jew or Greek, there is no such thing as slave or free, there is no such thing as male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are seed of Abraham, heirs by promise.

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