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Galatians Chapter 3 003:001 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified? 003:002 I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 003:003 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh? 003:004 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
003:005 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 003:006 Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness." 003:007 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.
003:008 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."{Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18} 003:009 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. 003:010 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse.
For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."{Deuteronomy 27:26} 003:011 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."{Habakkuk 2:4} 003:012 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."{Leviticus 18:5} 003:013 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,"{Deuteronomy 21:23} 003:014 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 003:015 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it. 003:016 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.
He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed,"{Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7} which is Christ. 003:017 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. 003:018 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise. 003:019 What then is the law?
It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. 003:020 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one. 003:021 Is 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 of the law.
003:022 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 003:023 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 003:024 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 003:025 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 003:026 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
003:027 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 003:028 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 003:029 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.