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3:1  You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified!
3:2  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?
3:3  Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?
3:4  Did you experience so much for nothing?—if it really was for nothing.
3:5  Well then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?
3:6  Just as Abraham ‘believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness’,
3:7  so, you see, those who believe are the descendants of Abraham.
3:8  And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ‘All the Gentiles shall be blessed in you.’
3:9  For this reason, those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed.
3:10  For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law.’
3:11  Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law; for ‘The one who is righteous will live by faith.’
3:12  But the law does not rest on faith; on the contrary, ‘Whoever does the works of the law will live by them.’
3:13  Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’—
3:14  in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
3:15  Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person’s will has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it.
3:16  Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, ‘And to offsprings’, as of many; but it says, ‘And to your offspring’, that is, to one person, who is Christ.
3:17  My point is this: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.
3:18  For if the inheritance comes from the law, it no longer comes from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.
3:19  Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.
3:20  Now a mediator involves more than one party; but God is one.
3:21  Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law.
3:22  But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
3:23  Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed.
3:24  Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.
3:25  But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian,
3:26  for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.
3:27  As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
3:28  There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
3:29  And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.