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¹ O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?² This only would I learn from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?³ Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now perfected in the flesh?⁴ Did you suffer so many things in vain? if it is indeed in vain.⁵ He therefore that supplies to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, [does he do it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

⁶ Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.⁷ Know therefore that those that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.⁸ And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, [saying,] In you shall all the nations be blessed.⁹ So then those that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.¹⁰ For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.¹¹ Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;¹² and the law is not of faith; but, He that does them shall live in them.¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:¹⁴ that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.¹⁵ Brothers, I speak after the manner of men: Though it is but a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds thereto.¹⁶ Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your seed, which is Christ.¹⁷ Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not disannul, so as to make the promise of no effect.¹⁸ For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

¹⁹ What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made; [and it was] directed through angels by the hand of a mediator.²⁰ Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one; but God is one.²¹ Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could bring life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.²² But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those that believe.²³ But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up to the faith which should afterward be revealed.²⁴ So that the law has become our tutor [to bring us] to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.²⁵ But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.²⁶ For you are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus.²⁷ For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.²⁸ There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither slave nor free, there can be no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.²⁹ And if you are Christ's, then are you Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise.