1 O FOOLISH Galatians, who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2 This only I desire to learn from you: Was it from works of law that ye received the Spirit, or from the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are ye now being made perfect with the flesh?
4 Did ye suffer so many things in vain? If indeed it be in vain.
5 Does he, therefore, who supplies to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, do it from works of law, or from the hearing of faith?
6 As Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
7 Know then that they who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham.
8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God justifies the Gentiles by faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham, saying: In thee shall all the nations be blessed.
9 So that they who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it is written: Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them.
11 And that in the law no one is justified with God, is evident; because, the just shall live by faith.
12 Now the law is not of faith; but, he that has done them shall live in them.
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; because it is written: Cursed is every one that is hanged on a tree;
14 that unto the Gentiles the blessing of Abraham might come in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men. If a covenant has been confirmed, though it be a man's, no one sets it aside, or adds thereto.
16 Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He says not, and to seeds, as concerning many; but as concerning one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.
17 But this I say, that a covenant before confirmed by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, to make the promise of no effect.
18 For if the inheritance is of law, it is no more of promise; but God has freely given it to Abraham by promise.
19 What then is the law? It was added because of the transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made; having been ordained through angels, by the hand of a mediator.
20 Now the mediator is not of one; but God is one.
21 Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be it! For if a law had been given which is able to make alive, truly righteousness would have been of law.
22 But the Scripture shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23 But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up unto the faith which was to be revealed.
24 So that the law has become our schoolmaster, unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But faith having come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For all ye who were immersed unto Christ, did put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.
