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| 3:1 |
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
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| 3:2 |
Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
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| 3:3 |
Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?
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| 3:4 |
Did you experience so many things in vain? -- if it really is in vain.
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| 3:5 |
Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
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| 3:6 |
Thus Abraham 'believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.'
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| 3:7 |
So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
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| 3:8 |
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, 'In you shall all the nations be blessed.'
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| 3:9 |
So then, those who are men of faith are blessed with Abraham who had faith.
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| 3:10 |
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse;for it is written, 'Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them.'
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| 3:11 |
Now it is evident that no man is justified before God by the law;for 'He who through faith is righteous shall live';
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| 3:12 |
but the law does not rest on faith, for 'He who does them shall live by them.'
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| 3:13 |
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us -- for it is written, 'Cursed be every one who hangs on a tree' --
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| 3:14 |
that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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| 3:15 |
To give a human example, brethren: no one annuls even a man's will, or adds to it, once it has been ratified.
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| 3:16 |
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, 'And to offsprings,' referring to many;but, referring to one, 'And to your offspring,' which is Christ.
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| 3:17 |
This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
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| 3:18 |
For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by promise;but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
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| 3:19 |
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made;and it was ordained by angels through an intermediary.
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| 3:20 |
Now an intermediary implies more than one;but God is one.
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| 3:21 |
Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not;for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
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| 3:22 |
But the scripture consigned all things to sin, that what was promised to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
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| 3:23 |
Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.
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| 3:24 |
So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.
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| 3:25 |
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian;
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| 3:26 |
for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
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| 3:27 |
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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| 3:28 |
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female;for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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| 3:29 |
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
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