Galatians 3 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you not be persuaded by the Truth —Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as having been crucified, before your very eyes!

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you not be persuaded by the Truth —Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as having been crucified, before your very eyes! ² Just tell me one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? ³ Can you be so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, do you finish in the flesh? ⁴ Have you suffered so much for nothing—if it really was for nothing? ⁵ Furthermore, He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, is He activated by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? — ⁶ just as Abraham “believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness”. ⁷ Now you must know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. ⁸ Further, the Scripture, foreseeing that “God justifies the nations by faith”, proclaimed the Gospel in advance to Abraham: “All the nations will be blessed through you”. ⁹ So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the faithful. ¹⁰ Now as many as are ‘by the works of the law’ are under a curse; because it stands written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them”. ¹¹ Further, it is evident that no one is justified by the law before God, because “the righteous will live by faith”. ¹² While the law is not of faith but, “the man who does them will live by them”. ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse in our place—because it stands written, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree” — ¹⁴ so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith. ¹⁵ Brothers: as a man I speak a covenant; though only of a man, once it has been ratified no one annuls or adds to it. ¹⁶ But to Abraham were spoken the promises, and to his Seed. He doesn’t say “and to seeds”, as about many, but “and to your seed”, as about one, who is Christ. ¹⁷ Further, I say this: a covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ cannot be annulled by the law that came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the promise of no effect. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance were of the law, it would no longer be of promise, but God granted it to Abraham by promise. ¹⁹ Why then the law? It was added on account of the transgressions, until the Seed should come to whom the inheritance had been promised; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a mediator. ²⁰ (Now that mediator is not for just one, but God is one.) ²¹ Is the law then against the promises of God? Of course not! Rather, if a law had been given that was capable of imparting life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. ²² But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. ²³ Now before this faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, in confinement until the coming faith was revealed. ²⁴ So then, the law became our guardian until Christ, so that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ Now that the faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. ²⁶ So all of you are sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁷ As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ ²⁸ —there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; all of you are one in Christ Jesus — ²⁹ so if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.