Galatians 3
1 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified before your very eyes.
2 I want to learn just one thing from you: did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?
3 Are you really so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being brought to completion by the flesh?
4 Did you suffer so many things for nothing? If indeed it was for nothing.
5 So then, does the one who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do this by works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?
6 Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
7 Know, then, that those who are of faith are Abraham’s children.
8 And Scripture, foreseeing that God would declare the Gentiles righteous by faith, announced the good news beforehand to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed in you.”
9 So those who are of faith are blessed along with faithful Abraham.
10 For all who rely on works of the Law are under a curse, because it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the book of the Law, to do them.”
11 It is clear that no one is declared righteous before God by the Law, because “the righteous will live by faith.”
12 But the Law is not based on faith; rather, “the one who does these things will live by them.”
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
14 This was so that Abraham’s blessing might reach the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, and so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.
15 Brothers and sisters, I’ll speak in human terms: even a human covenant, once ratified, is not annulled or added to by anyone.
16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” as though referring to many, but as referring to one: “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.
17 What I mean is this: the Law, which came 430 years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, and so make the promise void.
18 For if the inheritance comes by the Law, it no longer comes by the promise; but God graciously granted it to Abraham through the promise.
19 Why, then, was the Law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring to whom the promise had been made should come; it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not for one party alone, but God is one.
21 Then is the Law opposed to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed come through the Law.
22 But Scripture confined everything under sin, so that the promise might be given to those who believe, through faith in Jesus Christ.
23 Before faith came, we were kept under the Law, confined until the faith that was to be revealed.
24 So the Law became our guardian until Christ, so that we might be declared righteous by faith.
25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
26 For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.
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