Galatians 3:12
Galatians 3:11-12 The Message (MSG)
The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you. Habakkuk had it right: “The person who believes God, is set right by God—and that’s the real life.” Rule-keeping does not naturally evolve into living by faith, but only perpetuates itself in more and more rule-keeping, a fact observed in Scripture: “The one who does these things [rule-keeping] continues to live by them.”
Galatians 3:12 King James Version (KJV)
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Galatians 3:12 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, “HE WHO PRACTICES THEM SHALL LIVE BY THEM.”
Galatians 3:12 New Century Version (NCV)
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)
and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.
Galatians 3:12 New International Version (NIV)
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 New King James Version (NKJV)
Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”
Galatians 3:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
But the Law does not rest on or require faith [it has nothing to do with faith], but [instead, the Law] says, “HE WHO PRACTICES THEM [the things prescribed by the Law] SHALL LIVE BY THEM [instead of faith].” [Lev 18:5]
Galatians 3:12 New Living Translation (NLT)
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.”