Galatians 3:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

Galatians 3:12 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 18:5
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Romans 10:5-6
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. …
Nehemiah 9:29
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 thy judgments,(which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Romans 4:14
For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
Romans 4:16
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might 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,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-18)

The apostle having reproved the Galatians for not obeying the truth, and endeavoured to impress them with a sense of their folly herein, in these verses he largely proves the doctrine which he had reproved them for rejecting, namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does several ways. I. From the example of Abraham’s justification. This argument the apostle uses…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. doeth--Many depended on the law although they did not keep it; but without doing, saith Paul, it is of no use to them (Ro 2:13, 17, 23; 10:5).