Galatians 3

¹ O foolish Galatians! Who bewitches you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was graphically crucified? ² This only I want to learn from you: Did you get the spirit by works of law or by hearing of faith? ³ So foolish are you? Undertaking in spirit, are you now being completed in flesh? ⁴ So much did you suffer feignedly? Since, surely, it also is feignedly! ⁵ He, then, who is supplying you with the spirit, and operating works of power among you - did you get the spirit by works of law or by the hearing of faith, ⁶ according as Abraham believes God, and it is reckoned to him for righteousness? ⁷ Know, consequently, that those of faith, these are sons of Abraham. ⁸ Now the scripture, perceiving before that God is justifying the nations by faith, brings before an evangel to Abraham, that In you shall all the nations be blessed. ⁹ So that those of faith are being blessed together with believing Abraham. ¹⁰ For whoever are of works of law are under a curse, for it written that, Accursed is everyone who is not remaining in all things written in the scroll of the law to do them. ¹¹ Now that in law no one is being justified with God is evident, for the just one by faith shall be living. ¹² Now the law is not of faith, but who does them 'shall be living in them.' ¹³ Christ reclaims us from the curse of the law, becoming a curse for our sakes, for it is written, Accursed is everyone hanging on a pole, ¹⁴ that the blessing of Abraham may be coming to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we may be obtaining the promise of the spirit through faith. ¹⁵ Brethren (I am saying this as a man), a human covenant likewise having been ratified, no one is repudiating or modifying it. ¹⁶ Now to Abraham the promises were declared, and to his Seed. He is not saying "And to seeds" , as of many, but as of One: And to "your Seed", which is Christ. ¹⁷ Now this am I saying: a covenant, having been ratified before by God, the law, having come four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not invalidate, ¹⁸ so as to nullify the promise. For if the enjoyment of the allotment is of law, it is no longer of promise. Yet God has graciously granted it to Abraham through the promise. ¹⁹ What, then, is the law? On behalf of transgressions was it added, until the Seed should come to Whom He has promised, being prescribed through messengers in the hand of a mediator. ²⁰ Now there is no Mediator of one. Yet God is One. ²¹ Is the law, then, against the promises of God? May it not be coming to that! For if a law were given that is able to vivify, really, righteousness were out of law. ²² But the scripture locks up all together under sin, that the promise out of Jesus Christ's faith may be given to those who are believing. ²³ Now before the coming of faith we were garrisoned under law, being locked up together for the faith about to be revealed. ²⁴ So that the law has become our escort to Christ, that we may be justified by faith. ²⁵ Now, at the coming of faith, we are no longer under an escort, ²⁶ for you are all sons of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁷ For whoever are baptized into Christ, put on Christ, ²⁸ in Whom there is no Jew nor yet Greek, there is no slave nor yet free, there is no male and female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ Now if you are Christ's, consequently you are of Abraham's seed, enjoyers of the allotment according to the promise.