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Date: 21 Nov 2004 02:06:17 AM
Object: Paul's Letter to the Galatians 3, World English Bible
Paul's Letter to the Galatians, Chapter 3
{3:1} Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the
truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you
as crucified? {3:2} I just want to learn this from you. Did you
receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
{3:3} Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now
completed in the flesh? {3:4} Did you suffer so many things in vain,
if it is indeed in vain? {3:5} He therefore who supplies the Spirit to
you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the
law, or by hearing of faith? {3:6} Even as Abraham "believed God, and
it was counted to him for righteousness." {3:7} Know therefore that
those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham. {3:8} The
Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith,
preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the
nations will be blessed."[1] {3:9} So then, those who are of faith are
blessed with the faithful Abraham. {3:10} For as many as are of the
works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is
everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the
book of the law, to do them."[2] {3:11} Now that no man is justified
by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by
faith."[3] {3:12} The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them
will live by them."[4]
{3:13} Christ 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,"[5] {3:14} that the blessing of Abraham might come on the
Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of
the Spirit through faith. {3:15} Brothers, speaking of human terms,
though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no
one makes it void, or adds to it. {3:16} Now the promises were spoken
to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many,
but as of one, "To your seed,"[6] which is Christ. {3:17} Now I say
this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which
came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make
the promise of no effect. {3:18} For if the inheritance is of the law,
it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
{3:19} What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions,
until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was
ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. {3:20} Now a
mediator is not between one, but God is one. {3:21} Is the law then
against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a
law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would
have been of the law. {3:22} But the Scriptures imprisoned all things
under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to
those who believe. {3:23} But before faith came, we were kept in
custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards
be revealed. {3:24} So that the law has become our tutor to bring us
to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. {3:25} But now that
faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. {3:26} For you are all
children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. {3:27} For as many of
you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. {3:28} There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is
neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. {3:29}
If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according
to promise.
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Footnotes:
[1] {3:8} Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18
[2] {3:10} Deuteronomy 27:26
[3] {3:11} Habakkuk 2:4
[4] {3:12} Leviticus 18:5
[5] {3:13} Deuteronomy 21:23
[6] {3:16} Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7
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