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3 You foolish Galatians, who tricked you into changing? You know that Yeshua the messiah was publicly known to have been executed on a stake. 2 So I just want to ask you one thing: did you receive the spirit from obeying all the rules, or was it by faith when you heard? 3 So aren’t you being foolish? Having begun in the spirit, now you’re all focussing back on bodily discipline. 4 You vainly endured so many things—it was vain wasn’t it? 5 So the one who gave the spirit to you and worked miracles among you all, did all that come about from obeying the rules or by the faith that came from hearing the good message?
3:6 The spreading of Abraham’s blessing
6 Abraham[ref] believed in God and was declared guiltless as a result. 7 So now anyone who exercises faith is a descendant of Abraham.[ref] 8 [ref]The writers of the scriptures foresaw that God was going to make non-Jews guiltless through faith when he promised to Abraham that all the nations would be blessed through him, 9 so those who have faith that Yeshua is the messiah will be blessed just as Abraham was blessed for believing God.
10 All those who strive to be saved by obeying the law are under a curse, because it’s written that ‘everyone is cursed who doesn’t live by and fulfil everything that’s been written down in the scroll of the law’.[ref] 11 It’s clear that no one can be made guiltless before God because it’s written that ‘those who are guiltless will live by faith’.[ref] 12 And the law doesn’t produce faith, but ‘the person who obeys these things is the one who will live’.[ref]
13 The messiah saved us from the curse of the law by becoming the curse for our sake, because it’s written, ‘anyone who is hung on a tree is cursed’.[ref] 14 He paid the price for us so that the blessing for Abraham would also reach the non-Jews through the messiah Yeshua and we all would be able to receive the spirit through faith.
3:15 The law didn’t annul the promise
15 Brothers and sisters, consider our human ways: once an agreement has been accepted, one party can’t just reject it now or add conditions. 16 The promises were given to Abraham and to his offspring. It doesn’t say ‘offsprings (plural)’ but only is only referring to the one which is the messiah. 17 So what I’m telling you is that the agreement with Abraham that was previously ratified by God, was not annulled 430 years later[ref] when the law was given to Moses and nor was the promised nullified. 18 [ref]Because if the inheritance now came by obeying the law, then it could no longer be the result of the promise, but God had already granted to Abraham via the promise. 19 So what was the law for then? Because of sinfulness, it was added until the promised descendant would come. It was directed through messengers and entrusted to Moses as a mediator. 20 You don’t need a mediator if there’s only one party involved, and God is one.
3:21 Coming of age for the inheritance
21 So does the law oppose God’s promises? Certainly not, because if the law was able to give life, you could become guiltless by obeying the law. 22 The scriptures explain that everyone is imprisoned by sin so that by faith in Yeshua the messiah, the promise could be granted to those who believe.
23 Before faith could come, we were guarded under the law—imprisoned so that faith could be revealed. 24 So the law was our tutor until the messiah came so that we could then be made guiltless by faith, 25 and now that we’ve come to faith, we’re no longer under our tutor.
26 So you’re all children of God through faith in the messiah, Yeshua, 27 because everyone who’s been immersed to obey the messiah, is now cloaked in the messiah. 28 Then there’s no Jew or Greek, no slave or free person, no male or female, because you’re all identified as being in the messiah, Yeshua. 29 [ref]And if you’re in the messiah, then now you’re Abraham’s descendant and so you’re heirs of that promise.