Key Verse Spotlight
Galatians 3:6 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. {accounted: or, imputed}”
Galatians 3:6
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if {it be} yet in vain. {so many: or, so great}
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?
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. {accounted: or, imputed}
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
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.
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