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Galatians 3:12

12The law is not based on faith. In fact, it is just the opposite. It teaches that “the one who does those things will live by them.” (Leviticus 18:5)

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Galatians 3:12 — The New International Version (NIV)

12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”

Galatians 3:12 — English Standard Version (ESV)

12 But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”

Galatians 3:12 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

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

Galatians 3:12 — New Living Translation (NLT)

12 This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”

Galatians 3:12 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

12 Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”

Galatians 3:12 — New Century Version (NCV)

12 The law is not based on faith. It says, “A person who obeys these things will live because of them.”

Galatians 3:12 — American Standard Version (ASV)

12 and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

Galatians 3:12 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

12 but the law is not on the principle of faith; but, He that shall have done these things shall live by them.

Galatians 3:12 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

12 These laws have nothing to do with faith, but, “Whoever obeys laws will live because he obeys them.” 

Galatians 3:12 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

12 But the law is not based on faith; instead, the one who does these things will live by them.

Galatians 3:12 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

12 But the law does not rest on faith; on the contrary, “Whoever does the works of the law will live by them.”

Galatians 3:12 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

12 But the law is not from faith, but “the one who does these things will live by them.”

Galatians 3:12 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

12 However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, “He who practices them shall live by them.”


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