Galatians 3

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

I only want to learn this from you: did you receive the spirit by the works of the law, or by trusting what you heard?

Are you so senseless? Having begun in the spirit, are you now trying to be completed in the flesh?

Have you suffered so many things in vain—if it really was in vain?

Indeed, he who is supplying the spirit to you and working miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by trusting what you heard?

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

Know then, that those who rely on trust, they are children of Abraham.

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would declare the Gentiles righteous by trust, proclaimed the good news to Abraham ahead of time, saying, In you all the nations will be blessed.

So then, those who rely on trust are blessed along with Abraham, the man of trust.

For as many as rely on the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not continue doing everything that is written in the book of the law.

But it is clear that no one is declared righteous before God by the law, because the righteous will live by trust,

and the law is not based on trust, but the one who does them will live by them.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree),

so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham could come to the Gentiles, and so that through trust we could receive the spirit that was promised.

Brothers and sisters, I am speaking in human terms: even a covenant that has been ratified by man, no one annuls or adds to it.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. It does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your seed,” which is Christ.

Now I tell you this: the law, which came 430 years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise, but God has graciously given it to Abraham by a promise.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed for whom the promise was intended should come, having been given through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Now a mediator is not for one party only; but God is only one.

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have been based on law.

But the Scripture has imprisoned all things under sin, so that the promise would be given based on trust in Jesus Christ to those who believe.

But before the coming of the trust in Christ, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the trust that was about to come was revealed.

So then, the law has been our guardian-tutor until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by trust.

But now that trust has come, we are no longer under a guardian-tutor.

For you are all sons of God through trust 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 all are one in Christ Jesus.

Now if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs of what was promised.