1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? [Num. 21:9] It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly [1 Cor. 1:23]portrayed as crucified. 2 Let me ask you only this: ver. 14;Eph. 1:13;Heb. 6:4;See Acts 15:8Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by Rom. 10:17hearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Phil. 1:6;[ch. 4:9]Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by3:3 Or now ending with the flesh? 4 1 Cor. 15:2;[Heb. 10:35;2 John 8]Did you suffer3:4 Or experience so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and [1 Cor. 12:10] works miracles among you do so ver. 2by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— 6 just as Cited from Gen. 15:6;[Rom. 4:9,21,22]; See Rom. 4:3Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
7 Know then that it is ver. 9those of faith who are See Luke 19:9the sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that See Rom. 3:30God would justify3:8 Or count righteous; also verses 11, 24 the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, Cited from Gen. 12:3"In you shall all the nations be blessed." 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
10 For all who rely on works of the law are [ch. 5:4]; See Rom. 4:15under a curse; for it is written, Cited from Deut. 27:26;[Jer. 11:3;Ezek. 18:4] "Cursed be everyone who does not [Matt. 5:19]abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them." 11 Now it is evident that See ch. 2:16no one is justified before God by the law, for Rom. 1:17;Heb. 10:38;Cited from Hab. 2:4"The righteous shall live by faith."3:11 Or The one who by faith is righteous will live12 But the law is not of faith, rather Cited from Lev. 18:5;See Rom. 10:5"The one who does them shall live by them." 13 Christ ch. 4:5;[Rev. 22:3]; See 2 Pet. 2:1redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, Cited from Deut. 21:23"Cursed is everyone who is hanged See Acts 5:30on a tree"— 14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might Rom. 4:9,16;[ver. 28] come to the Gentiles, so that ver. 2we might receive Acts 2:33;[Isa. 32:15;44:3;Joel 2:28;John 7:39;Eph. 1:13]the promised Spirit3:14 Greek receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15 See Rom. 3:5To give a human example, brothers:3:15 Or brothers and sisters[Heb. 9:17]even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. 16 Now Rom. 4:13,16;See Luke 1:55the promises were made Gen. 12:7;Acts 13:32to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, Acts 3:25"And to your offspring," who is Christ. 17 This is what I mean: the law, which came Ex. 12:40,41;[Gen. 15:13;Acts 7:6] 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as Rom. 4:14to make the promise void. 18 For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but [Heb. 6:13,14]God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
19 Why then the law? [Rom. 4:15] It was added because of transgressions, ver. 16until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was Acts 7:53;Heb. 2:2put in place through angels Ex. 20:19,21,22;Deut. 5:5,22,23,27,31;Acts 7:38by an intermediary. 20 Now 1 Tim. 2:5;Heb. 8:6;9:15;12:24;[Heb. 6:17] an intermediary implies more than one, but Rom. 3:30God is one.
21 Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For See ch. 2:21if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. 22 But the Scripture Rom. 11:32;See Rom. 3:9imprisoned everything under sin, so that Rom. 4:16the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given See Acts 10:43to those who believe.
23 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, [1 Pet. 1:5]imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 24 So then, [Matt. 5:17;Rom. 10:4;Col. 2:17;Heb. 9:9,10] the law was our 1 Cor. 4:15(Gk.)guardian until Christ came, ver. 11;See ch. 2:16in order that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26 for in Christ Jesus ch. 4:5,6;[John 1:12]; See Rom. 8:14-16you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as Rom. 6:3were baptized See Acts 8:16into Christ have See Rom. 13:14put on Christ. 28 [ver. 14; ch. 5:6;6:15]; See Rom. 3:30; 1 Cor. 12:13There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave3:28 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface nor free, 1 Cor. 11:11there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And See Rom. 9:7;1 Cor. 3:23if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, ch. 4:1,7;Rom. 8:17;Eph. 3:6;[ch. 4:28;2 Tim. 1:1;Titus 1:2;Heb. 9:15]heirs according to promise.
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