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1Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched y’all, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed as crucified?
2I just want to learn this from y’all: Did y’all receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?
3Are y’all so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are y’all now being perfected by the flesh?
4Did y’all suffer so many things in vain, if it was indeed in vain?
5So then does he who supplies the Spirit to y’all and does miracles among y’all, does he do it by the works of the law or with hearing of faith?
6Even so, Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”[#Genesis 15:6]
7Y’all should know then that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.
8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the ethnic groups by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the ethnic groups will be blessed.”[#Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18]
9So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the faithful.
10For all those who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue to do all things that are written in the scroll of the law.”[#Deuteronomy 27:26]
11Now it is clear that no one is justified by the law before God, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”[#Habakkuk 2:4]
12The law is not of faith, but, “The person who does them will live by them.”[#Leviticus 18:5]
13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”),[#Deuteronomy 21:23]
14so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the ethnic groups through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15Siblings, I speak in human terms: though it is only a human covenant, once it has been confirmed, no one cancels it or adds to it.
16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “and to seeds,” referring to many, but to one, “to your seed,” who is Christ.
17What I mean is this: The law, which came 430 years after, does not invalidate a covenant confirmed beforehand by God, so as to nullify the promise.
18For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by a promise.
19Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed would come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
20Now a mediator is not between only one person, but God is one.
21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been based on the law.
22But the Scripture locked up everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which was later to be revealed.
24So the law has become our guide to bring us to Christ, so that we might be justified by faith.
25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guide.
26So y’all are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27For all of y’all who were baptized in Christ have put on Christ.
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female; for y’all are one in Christ Jesus.
29If y’all belong to Christ, then y’all are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.