[DailyReading] Bewitched by the law

[Daily Bible Readings]

Lesson: Christ Confronts Legalism
Reading: Bewitched by the law  2012-01-20
Reference: Gal. 3:1-11 

Gal 3:1: O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Gal 3:2: This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Gal 3:3: Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Gal 3:4: Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Gal 3:5: He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Gal 3:6: Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Gal 3:7: Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
Gal 3:8: And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying , In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Gal 3:9: So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Gal 3:10: For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Gal 3:11: But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
(KJV)