Galatians Chapter 3
1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you to not obey the truth? Before your eyes, Jesus Christ was set forth and crucified among you.
2 This only would I learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit from works of the law or by hearing of faith?
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect~ by the flesh?
4 Have you suffered so many things in vain? If it was in vain.
5 Therefore, does He who supplies⁺ the Spirit to you and works miracles~ among you do it by works of the law or by hearing of faith?
6 As Abraham believed God, it was credited⁺ to him as righteousness. Genesis 15:6
7 Know, therefore, that those who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, proclaimed⁺ the Gospel to Abraham before, saying: In you, all the nations will be blessed. Genesis 12:3
9 So, those who are of faith are being blessed with the faith⁺ of Abraham.
10 For all⁺ who endure⁺ by works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them. Deuteronomy 27:26
11 However⁺ it is evident that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God. For the righteous⁺ shall live by faith.
12 However⁺, law is not by faith. But, those of mankind⁺ who make them shall live in them. Leviticus 18:5
13 Christ has redeemed~ us from the curse of the law by becoming⁺ cursed for us. For it is written: Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree. Deuteronomy 21:23
14 This occurred so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15 Family⁺, I am speaking after the manner of men. Even so, no one can nullify⁺ or add to a man's confirmed covenant~.
16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his seed. He did not say: And to seeds, as of many, but as of one. And specifically to your seed, who is Christ.
17 I say this: The covenant~ pertaining to Christ was confirmed before by God. The law that came into being⁺ four hundred and thirty years later⁺, cannot nullify⁺ it so that it would make the promise of no effect.
18 For if the inheritance is from the law, then it is no longer⁺ from the promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise.
19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come for whom the promise was made. It was ordained in the hand of a mediator by angels.
20 But the mediator is not the one who made the promise, but God is.
21 Then is the law against the promises of God? That cannot be⁺. For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then truly⁺ righteousness could have been achieved by law.
22 But the Scripture established⁺ all things under sin so that the promise of Jesus Christ might be given by faith to those who believe.
23 But before faith came, under law we were guarded⁺ while closed⁺ to the faith that was about to be revealed.
24 Therefore the law was our tutor⁺ to bring us to Christ so that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under an instructor⁺.
26 For you are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For all⁺ who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.