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title: Galatians 3:10
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/galatians-3-10/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/galatians-3-10.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Galatians 3:10
testament: NT
section: Letters
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Galatians 3:10

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

## JW Usage

JWs cite Galatians 3:10 to confirm that the Mosaic Law is obsolete — Christians are not under the Law of Moses. The Watchtower treats the curse as lifting once a person leaves Judaism and enters "the Christian arrangement." Organisational obedience to the Governing Body is then presented as something other than "works of law," so the curse of 3:10 is said not to apply.

## Protestant Usage

Paul's argument is broader than first-century circumcision. He is stating the mechanism by which any rule-based righteousness system works: to stand before God by compliance is to stand under the whole weight of that rule-system — and Deuteronomy 27:26 (which Paul quotes) declares "cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written." The doorstep form: any system where your standing with God depends on what you do — meeting hours, field service, organisational loyalty — puts you under the same logic, because partial obedience is no obedience at all. James 2:10 says the same thing: the one who stumbles at one point is guilty of breaking the whole law. The escape is not a better list of rules. The escape is Christ, who "became a curse for us" (Galatians 3:13).

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [The Galatians Parallel](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/galatians-parallel.md) — Judaisers = Watchtower pattern [Salvation]