²⁰and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ²¹I do not declare invalid the grace of God, for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.

Justified by the Law, or Justified by Faith?

3O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as having been crucified? ²I want only to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? ³Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now trying to be made complete by the flesh? ⁴Have you suffered so many things for nothing—if indeed also it was for nothing? ⁵Therefore does the one who gives you the Spirit and who works miracles among you do so by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

⁶Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness, ⁷then understand that the ones who have faith^a, these are sons of Abraham. ⁸And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the good news in advance to Abraham: “In you all the nations^b will be blessed.”^c ⁹So then, the ones who have faith are blessed together with Abraham who believed.

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Galatians 2:20: I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Footnotes

aLiterally “of faith”
bOr “Gentiles”; the same Greek word can be translated “nations” or “Gentiles” depending on the context
cA quotation from Gen 12:3; 18:18