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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10All 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.” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.” |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Christ 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.” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He 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. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one party; but God is one. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. |
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