Galatians 3:8-10

1599 Geneva Bible

Footnotes

1. Galatians 3:8 The third, that all people that believe, are without exception, comprehended in the promise of the blessing.
2. Galatians 3:8 A proof of the first and second grounds, out of the words of Moses.
3. Galatians 3:8 Blessing in this place, signifieth the free promise by faith.
4. Galatians 3:9 The conclusion of the fifth argument: Therefore as Abraham is blessed by faith, so are all his children (that is to say, all the Gentiles that believe) blessed, that is to say, freely justified.
5. Galatians 3:9 With faithful Abraham, and not by faithful Abraham, to give us to understand that the blessing cometh not from Abraham, but from him, by whom Abraham and all his posterity is blessed.
6. Galatians 3:10 The sixth argument, the conclusion whereof is also in the former verse taken of contraries, thus, They are accursed which are of the works of the Law, that is to say, which value their [righteousness] by the performance of the Law. Therefore they are blessed which are of faith, that is, they which have righteousness by faith.
7. Galatians 3:10 A proof of the former sentence or proposition: and the proposition of this argument is this: Cursed is he that fulfilleth not the whole Law.