Galatians:3:1-14

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* O foolish Galatians ! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth , before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified ? * This only I want to learn from you : Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law , or by the hearing of faith ? * Are you so foolish ? Having begun in the Spirit , are you now being made perfect by the flesh ? * Have you suffered so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain ? * Therefore 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 ?-- * just as Abraham "believed God , and it was accounted to him for righteousness ." * Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham . * And the Scripture , foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith , preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand , saying , "In you all the nations shall be blessed ." * So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham . * For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse ; for it is written , "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law , to do them ." * But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident , for "the just shall live by faith ." * Yet the law is not of faith , but "the man who does them shall live by them ." * Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law , having become a curse for us (for it is written , "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree " ), * that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus , that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith .

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