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3:1 O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you+, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?
3:2 This only I would learn from you+, Did you+ receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3:3 Are you+ so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you+ now perfected in the flesh? 3:4 Did you+ suffer so many things for nothing? If it is indeed for nothing. 3:5 He therefore who supplies to you+ the Spirit, and works miracles among you+, [does he do it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness. 3:7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham. 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the good news beforehand to Abraham, [saying,] In you will all the nations be blessed. 3:9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. 3:10 For as many as are of the 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. 3:11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous will live by faith; 3:12 and the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will live in them. 3:13 Christ 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: 3:14 that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 3:15 Brothers, I speak after the manner of men: Though it is but a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds thereto. 3:16 Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your seed, which is Christ. 3:17 Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not disannul, so as to make the promise of no effect. 3:18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God has granted it to Abraham by promise. 3:19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made; [and it was] directed through angels by the hand of a mediator. 3:20 Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one; but God is one. 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could bring life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 3:22 But the Scripture shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up to the faith which should afterward be revealed. 3:24 So that the law has become our tutor [to bring us] to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 3:25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 3:26 For you+ are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus. 3:27 For as many of you+ as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ. 3:28 There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither slave nor free, there can be no male and female; for you+ are all one in Christ Jesus. 3:29 And if you+ are Christ's, then are you+ Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise. |
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