Galatians 3:11-12

3:11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith. ¹  3:12 But the law is not based on faith, ²  but the one who does the works of the law ³  will live by them. ⁴ 

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¹ tn Or “The one who is righteous by faith will live” (a quotation from Hab 2:4).

² tn Grk “is not from faith.”

³ tn Grk “who does these things”; the referent (the works of the law, see 3:5) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ sn A quotation from Lev 18:5. The phrase the works of the law is an editorial expansion on the Greek text (see previous note); it has been left as normal typeface to indicate it is not part of the OT text.