Galatians 3:1-9 ▼

1 You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

3 Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

4 Have you suffered so many things for nothing?--if indeed it was for nothing.

5 Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

6 Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,

7 so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.

8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying, |All the nations will be blessed in you.|

9 So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.