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Galatians 3

⁶ In like manner Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.⁷ Know ye, therefore, that those who are of faith, they are the children of Abraham.⁸ For, because God knew beforehand that the Gentiles would be made just by faith, he preannounced it to Abraham; as saith the holy scripture, In thee shall all nations be blessed.⁹ therefore, it is, who are blessed with believing Abraham.¹⁰ For they who are of the deeds of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who shall not do every thing written in this law.¹¹ And that no one becometh just before God, by the law, is manifest: because it is written, The just by faith, shall live.¹² Now the law is not of faith; but, whoever shall do the things written in it, shall live by them.¹³ But the Messiah hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, and hath been a curse for us; (for it is written, Cursed is everyone that is hanged on a tree;)¹⁴ that the blessing of Abraham might be on the Gentiles, through Jesus the Messiah; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.¹⁵ My brethren, I speak as among men; a man's covenant which is confirmed, no one setteth aside, or changeth any thing in it.¹⁶ Now to Abraham was the promise made, and to his seed. And it said to him, not, to thy seeds, as being many; but to thy seed, as being one, which is the Messiah.¹⁷ And this I say: That the covenant which was previously confirmed by God in the Messiah, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot set it aside, and nullify the promise.¹⁸ And if the inheritance were by the law, it would not be by promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

¹⁹ What then is the law? It was added on account of transgression, until that seed should come, to whom belonged the promise: and the law was given by angels through a mediator.²⁰ Now a mediator is not of one; but God is one.²¹ Is the law then opposed to the promise of God? Far be it. For if a law had been given, which could make alive, certainly, righteousness would have been by the law.²² But the scripture hath inclosed all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus the Messiah might be given to them that believe.²³ But before the faith came, the law kept us shut up unto the faith that was to be revealed.²⁴ The law, therefore, was a monitor for us unto the Messiah, that we might become just by faith.²⁵ But the faith having come, we are not under the monitor.²⁶ For ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus the Messiah.²⁷ For they who have been baptized into the Messiah, have put on the Messiah.²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free-born, neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Jesus the Messiah.²⁹ And if ye are the Messiah's, then are ye the seed of Abraham, and heirs by the promise.