Galatians 2:20–3:9

²⁰and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,ⁱ who loved me and gave himself for me.^{* 21}I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness^j comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

Law or Faith

³You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited 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? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?^{* 4}Did you experience so much for nothing?—if it really was for nothing.^{* 5}Well then, does God^k 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?

⁶Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,”^{* 7}so, you see, those who believe are the descendants of Abraham. ⁸And the scripture, foreseeing that God would reckon as righteous the gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the gentiles shall be blessed in you.”^{* 9}For this reason, those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed.