Galatians 3:1–14

¹O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth—before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified? ²this only do I wish to learn from you—by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith? ³so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end? ⁴so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain. ⁵He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you—by works of law or by the hearing of faith is it?

⁶According as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness; ⁷know ye, then, that those of faith—these are sons of Abraham, ⁸and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham— ⁹‘Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;’ so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham, ¹⁰for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, ‘Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law—to do them,’ ¹¹and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because ‘The righteous by faith shall live;’ ¹²and the law is not by faith, but—‘The man who did them shall live in them.’ ¹³Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, ‘Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,’ ¹⁴that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.