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1 You stupid people of Galatia! Who put you under an evil spell? Wasn't Christ Jesus' crucifixion clearly described to you? 2 I want to learn only one thing from you. Did you receive the Spirit by your own efforts to live according to a set of standards or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you that stupid? Did you begin in a spiritual way only to end up doing things in a human way? 4 Did you suffer so much for nothing? [I doubt] that it was for nothing! 5 Does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you through your own efforts or through believing what you heard? 6 Abraham serves as an example. He believed God, and that faith was regarded by God to be his approval of Abraham. 7 You must understand that people who have faith are Abraham's descendants. 8 Scripture saw ahead of time that God would give his approval to non-Jewish people who have faith. So Scripture announced the Good News to Abraham ahead of time when it said, |Through you all the people of the world will be blessed.| 9 So people who believe are blessed together with Abraham, the man of faith. Galatians 3:1-9, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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