1 o, Onverstandige Gal siërs, wie het julle betower om die waarheid nie gehoorsaam te wees nie, julle voor wie se oë Jesus Christus afgeskilder is as onder julle gekruisig?
2 Dit alleen wil ek van julle weet: het julle die Gees ontvang uit die werke van die wet of uit die prediking van die geloof?
3 Is julle so onverstandig? Nadat julle met die Gees begin het, eindig julle nou met die vlees?
4 Het julle verniet so baie gely? As dit maar verniet was!
5 Hy wat julle dan die Gees verleen en kragte onder julle werk, doen Hy dit uit die werke van die wet of uit die prediking van die geloof?
6 Net soos Abraham in God geglo het, en dit is hom tot geregtigheid gereken.
7 Julle verstaan dan dat die wat uit die geloof is, hulle is kinders van Abraham.
8 En die Skrif wat vooruit gesien het dat God die heidene uit die geloof sou regverdig, het vooraf aan Abraham die evangelie verkondig met die woorde: In jou sal al die volke geseënword.
9 Sodat die wat uit die geloof is, geseënword saam met die gelowige Abraham.
10 Want almal wat uit die werke van die wet is, is onder die vloek; want daar is geskrywe: Vervloek is elkeen wat nie bly in alles wat geskryf is in die boek van die wet om dit te doen nie.
11 En dat niemand deur die wet by God geregverdig word nie, is duidelik; want die regverdige sal uit die geloof lewe.
12 Maar die wet is nie uit die geloof nie, maar die mens wat hierdie dinge doen, sal daardeur lewe.
13 Christus het ons losgekoop van die vloek van die wet deur vir ons 'n vloek te word -- want daar is geskrywe: Vervloek is elkeen wat aan 'n hout hang --
14 sodat die seën van Abraham na die heidene kan kom in Christus Jesus, en dat ons die belofte van die Gees deur die geloof kan ontvang.
15 Broeders, ek spreek menslikerwys: selfs 'n mens se testament wat bekragtig is, maak niemand tot niet of voeg daaraan toe nie.
16 Nou is aan Abraham die beloftes toegesê en aan sy saad. Hy sê nie: En aan die sade, asof dit op baie sien nie, maar op een: En aan jou saad, dit is Christus.
17 Maar ek sê d¡t: die wet wat vier honderd en dertig jaar later gekom het, maak die verbond wat deur God in Christus vantevore bekragtig is, nie kragteloos om die belofte tot niet te maak nie.
18 Want as die erfenis uit die wet is, dan is dit nie meer uit die belofte nie. Maar God het dit aan Abraham deur 'n belofte genadiglik geskenk.
19 Wat beteken die wet dan? Dit is bygevoeg weens die oortredinge, totdat die saad aan wie die belofte gedoen is, sou kom; en dit is deur engele beskik deur tussenkoms van 'n middelaar.
20 En die middelaar is nie net vir een nie; maar God is een.
21 Is die wet dan teen die beloftes van God? Nee, stellig nie! Want as daar 'n wet gegee was wat krag het om lewend te maak, dan sou die geregtigheid werklik uit die wet wees.
22 Maar die Skrif het alles ingesluit onder die sonde, sodat die belofte uit die geloof in Jesus Christus aan die gelowiges gegee kon word.
23 Maar voordat die geloof gekom het, is ons onder die wet in bewaring gehou, ingesluit met die oog op die geloof wat geopenbaar sou word.
24 Die wet was dus ons tugmeester na Christus toe, sodat ons geregverdig kan word uit die geloof.
25 Maar nou dat die geloof gekom het, is ons nie meer onder 'n tugmeester nie.
26 Want julle is almal kinders van God deur die geloof in Christus Jesus;
27 want julle almal wat in Christus gedoop is, het julle met Christus beklee.
28 Daar is nie meer Jood of Griek nie, daar is nie meer slaaf of vryman nie, daar is nie meer man en vrou nie; want julle is almal een in Christus Jesus.
29 En as julle aan Christus behoort, dan is julle die nageslag van Abraham en volgens die belofte erfgename.
1 O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?
2 Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?
4 Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.
5 He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?
6 Even as Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.
7 Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.
8 And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.
9 So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.
10 For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
11 Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.
12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.
13 Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
14 So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.
15 Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.
16 Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.
17 Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.
18 Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.
19 What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.
20 Now a go-between is not a go-between of one; but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
22 However, the holy Writings have put all things under sin, so that that for which God gave the undertaking, based on faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who have such faith.
23 But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.
24 So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.
25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.
26 Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For all those of you who were given baptism into Christ did put on Christ.
28 There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.
29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.