Galatians 3:1–14

Justification by Faith

3O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you ¹that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed ²among you as crucified? ²This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, ^aor by the hearing of faith?—³Are you so foolish? ^bHaving begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by ^cthe flesh? ^4dHave you suffered so ³many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

⁵Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? ⁶just as Abraham ^e“believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” ⁷Therefore know that only ^fthose who are of faith are sons of Abraham. ⁸And ^gthe Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, ^h“In you all the nations shall be blessed.” ⁹So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

The Law Brings a Curse

¹⁰For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, ⁱ“Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” ¹¹But that no one is ⁴justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for ^j“the just shall live by faith.” ¹²Yet ^kthe law is not of faith, but ^l“the man who does them shall live by them.”

^13mChrist has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ⁿ“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), ^14othat the blessing of Abraham might come upon the ^pGentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive ^qthe promise of the Spirit through faith.