Galatians 3:11
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 3:11 King James Version (KJV)
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Galatians 3:11 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, “THE RIGHTEOUS MAN SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.”
Galatians 3:11 New Century Version (NCV)
Now it is clear that no one can be made right with God by the law, because the Scriptures say, “Those who are right with God will live by faith.”
Galatians 3:11 American Standard Version (ASV)
Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith
Galatians 3:11 New International Version (NIV)
Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”
Galatians 3:11 New King James Version (NKJV)
But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”
Galatians 3:11 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Now it is clear that no one is justified [that is, declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing] before God by the Law, for “THE RIGHTEOUS (the just, the upright) SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.” [Hab 2:4]
Galatians 3:11 New Living Translation (NLT)
So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”