Galatians 3:1-9 ▼

1 O thoughtless Galatians, who bewitched you, not to obey the truth—before whose eyes [it] was previously written [about] Jesus Christ having been crucified?

2 I only wish to learn this from you: did you receive the Spirit by works of the Law, or by the hearing of faith?

3 Are you so thoughtless? Having begun in the Spirit, do you now end in the flesh?

4 So many things you suffered in vain! If, indeed, even in vain.

5 He, therefore, who is supplying the Spirit to you and working mighty acts among you—[is it] by works of law or by the hearing of faith?

6 According as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness;

7 know, then, that those of faith—these are sons of Abraham,

8 and the Writing, having foreseen that God declares righteous the nations by faith, foretold the good news to Abraham:

9 “All the nations will be blessed in you”; so that those of faith are blessed with the believing Abraham,