Gal3:1 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified!
Gal3:2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?
Gal3:3 Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?
Gal3:4 Did you experience so much for nothing?-- if it really was for nothing.
Gal3:5 Well then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?
Gal3:6 Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,"
Gal3:7 so, you see, those who believe are the descendants of Abraham.
Gal3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "All the Gentiles shall be blessed in you."
Gal3:9 For this reason, those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed.
Gal3:10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law."
Gal3:11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law; for "The one who is righteous will live by faith."
Gal3:12 But the law does not rest on faith; on the contrary, "Whoever does the works of the law will live by them."
Gal3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us-- for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"--
Gal3:14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Gal3:15 Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person's will has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it.
Gal3:16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, "And to offsprings," as of many; but it says, "And to your offspring," that is, to one person, who is Christ.
Gal3:17 My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.
Gal3:18 For if the inheritance comes from the law, it no longer comes from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.
Gal3:19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.
Gal3:20 Now a mediator involves more than one party; but God is one.
Gal3:21 Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law.
Gal3:22 But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Gal3:23 Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed.
Gal3:24 Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.
Gal3:25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian,
Gal3:26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.
Gal3:27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Gal3:28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Gal3:29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise.