Galatians 3:1–15 · BSB
3:1
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
3:2
I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
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3:3
Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?
3:4
Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?
3:5
Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?
3:6
So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
3:7
Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.
3:8
The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
3:9
So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
3:10
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
3:11
Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
3:12
The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
3:14
He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
3:15
Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.
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