Galatians:3

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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 . * Brethren , I speak in the manner of men : Though it is only a man 's covenant , yet if it is confirmed , no one annuls or adds to it . * Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made . He does not say , "And to seeds ," as of many , but as of one , "And to your Seed ," who is Christ . * And this I say , that the law , which was four hundred and thirty years later , cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ , that it should make the promise of no effect . * For if the inheritance is of the law , it is no longer of promise ; but God gave it to Abraham by promise . * What purpose then does the law serve ? It was added because of transgressions , till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made ; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator . * Now a mediator does not mediate for one only , but God is one . * Is the law then against the promises of God ? Certainly not ! For if there had been a law given which could have given life , truly righteousness would have been by the law . * But the Scripture has confined all under sin , that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe . * But before faith came , we were kept under guard by the law , kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed . * Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ , that we might be justified by faith . * But after faith has come , we are no longer under a tutor . * For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus . * For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ . * 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 . * And if you are Christ 's , then you are Abraham 's seed , and heirs according to the promise .

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