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 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh? 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain? 5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 6 Even so, Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness." 7 Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham. 8 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." 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

10 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." 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith." 12 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 for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree," 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

15 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. 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, "To descendants", as of many, but as of one, "To your offspring", which is Christ. 17 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. 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

19 Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

21 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. 22 But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 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. 29 If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.