ULT GAL Chapter 3

3 O foolish Galatians! Who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? 2 I want to learn only this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by Spirit, are you now finishing by flesh? 4 Have you experienced so many things for nothing—if indeed it was really for nothing? 5 Therefore, the one providing the Spirit to you and working miracles among you, is it by works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 6 Just as Abraham “believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness,” 7 know, then, that the ones by faith, these are sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, having foreseen that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, “In you all the nations will be blessed.” 9 So then, the ones by faith are blessed along with the believing Abraham. 10 For as many as are of works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the Book of the Law to do them.” 11 Now, that no one is justified before God by the law is clear, because “The righteous will live by faith.” 12 Now the law is not by faith, but, “The one doing these things will live in them.” 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse on behalf of us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone hanging on a tree”— 14 so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that through faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

15 Brothers, I speak according to man. Nevertheless, no one sets aside or adds to a covenant established by man. 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “and to seeds,” as to many, but as to one, “and to your seed,” who is Christ. 17 Now I say this: The law, having come after 430 years, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God to nullify the promise. 18 For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from promise. But God has graciously given it to Abraham through a promise. 19 Why, then, the law? It was added because of transgressions, having been put into effect through angels by the hand of a mediator until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made. 20 Now a mediator is not for one, but God is one. 21 Therefore is the law against the promises? May it never be! For if a law was given being able to make alive, then truly righteousness would have come by the law. 22 But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to the ones believing.

23 Now before the faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the faith about to be revealed. 24 So the law became our guardian until Christ, so that we might be justified by faith. 25 But faith having come, we are no longer under a guardian. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many as have been baptized into Christ put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 Now if you are of Christ, then you are seed of Abraham, heirs according to promise.

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