1 O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified {among you}?
2 This only I wish to learn of you, Have ye received the Spirit on the principle of works of law, or of {the} report of faith?
3 Are ye so senseless? having begun in Spirit, are ye going to be made perfect in flesh?
4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if indeed also in vain?
5 He therefore who ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, {is it} on the principle of works of law, or of {the} report of faith?
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
7 Know then that they that are on the principle of faith, these are Abraham's sons;
8 and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations on the principle of faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham: In thee all the nations shall be blessed.
9 So that they who are on the principle of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
10 For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which {are} written in the book of the law to do them;
11 but that by law no one is justified with God {is} evident, because The just shall live on the principle of faith;
12 but the law is not on the principle of faith; but, He that shall have done these things shall live by them.
13 Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed {is} every one hanged upon a tree,)
14 that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15 Brethren, (I speak according to man,) even man's confirmed covenant no one sets aside, or adds other dispositions to.
16 But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ.
17 Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
18 For if the inheritance {be} on the principle of law, {it is} no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in grace to Abraham by promise.
19 Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in {the} hand of a mediator.
20 But a mediator is not of one, but God is one.
21 {Is} then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;
22 but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith {which was} about to be revealed.
24 So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith.
25 But, faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor;
26 for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For ye, as many as have been baptised unto Christ, have put on Christ.
28 There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus:
29 but if *ye* {are} of Christ, then ye are Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise.
1 无知的加拉太人哪！ 耶稣基督钉十字架， 已经活现在你们眼前， 谁又迷惑了你们呢？
2 我只想问你们这一点： 你们接受了圣灵， 是靠着行律法， 还是因为信所听见的福音呢？
3 你们是这样的无知吗？你们既然靠着圣灵开始， 现在还要靠着肉体成全吗？
4 你们受了这么多的苦， 都是白受的吗？恐怕真是白受的了。
5 那么， 神赐圣灵给你们， 又在你们中间行神迹， 是因为你们行律法， 还是因为你们信所听见的福音呢？
6 正如亚伯拉罕信 神， 这就算为他的义。
7 所以你们要知道， 有信心的人， 就是亚伯拉罕的子孙。
8 圣经既然预先看见 神要使外族人因信称义， 就预先把好信息传给亚伯拉罕： "万国都必因你得福。"
9 这样看来， 有信心的人， 必定和有信心的亚伯拉罕一同得福。
10 凡是靠行律法称义的， 都在咒诅之下， 因为经上记着： "凡不常常照着律法书上所写的一切去行的， 都被咒诅。"
11 很明显， 在 神面前， 没有一个人可以靠着律法称义， 因为"义人必因信得生"（"义人必因信得生"或译： "因信称义的人， 必定得生"）。
12 律法本来不是出于信， 而是说： "遵行这些事的人， 就必因这些事而活。"
13 基督替我们受了咒诅， 就救赎我们脱离了律法的咒诅， 因为经上记着： "凡挂在木头上的， 都是受咒诅的。"
14 这样， 亚伯拉罕所蒙的福， 就在耶稣基督里临到外族人， 使我们因着信， 可以领受所应许的圣灵。
15 弟兄们， 我照着人的常理说： 一个立好了的约， 虽然是人所立的， 却没有人可以废弃或增加。
16 那些应许本来是给亚伯拉罕和他的后裔的。 神并没有说"给众后裔"， 好像指着多数； 而是说"给你的一个后裔"， 指着一个， 就是基督。
17 我要这样说， 神预先立好的约， 那四百三十年后才有的律法， 不能把它废掉， 使那应许落空。
18 因为所承受的， 如果是出于律法， 就不是出于应许； 但 神是凭着应许赐给了亚伯拉罕。
19 那么， 为什么要有律法呢？是为了过犯的缘故才加上的， 直到那得应许的后裔来到。律法是借着天使经中保的手设立的；
20 中保不是为单方面的， 但 神却是一位。
21 这样， 律法和 神的应许是对立的吗？绝对不是。如果所赐下的律法能使人得生命， 义就真的是出于律法了。
22 但圣经把所有的人都圈在罪中， 好把那因信耶稣基督而来的应许， 赐给相信的人。
23 但信的道理还没有来到以前， 我们在律法下被囚禁、被围困， 直到那要来的信的道理显明出来。
24 这样， 律法成了我们的启蒙教师， 领我们到基督那里， 使我们可以因信称义。
25 但信的道理既然来到， 我们就不再在启蒙教师之下了。
26 你们因着信， 在基督耶稣里都作了 神的儿子。
27 你们所有受洗归入基督的人， 都是披戴基督的，
28 并不分犹太人或希腊人， 作奴仆的或自由人， 男的或女的， 因为你们在基督耶稣里都成为一体了。
29 如果你们属于基督， 就是亚伯拉罕的后裔， 是按照应许承受产业的了。