New American Standard Bible 2020

Galatians 3:1-14

1 1You foolish 2Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ 3was publicly portrayed as crucified? 2This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by works of 4the Law, or by 5hearing 6with faith? 3Are you so foolish? Having begun 7by the Spirit, are you now 8being perfected by the flesh? 4Did you 9suffer so many things in vain--10if indeed it was in vain? 5So then, does He who 11provides you with the Spirit and 12works 13miracles among you, do it by works of 14the Law, or by 15hearing 16with faith?

6Just as 17Abraham 18believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. 7Therefore, recognize that 19it is those who are of faith who are 20sons of Abraham. 8The Scripture, foreseeing that God 21would justify the 22Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “23All the nations will be blessed in you.” 9So then, 24those who are of faith are blessed with 25Abraham, the believer.

10For all who are of works of 26the Law are under a curse; for it is written: “27Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the book of the Law, to do them.” 11Now, that 28no one is justified 29by 30the Law before God is evident; for, “31 32the righteous one will live by faith.” 12 33However, the Law is not 34of faith; on the contrary, “35The person who performs 36them will live by 37them.” 13Christ 38redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us--for it is written: “39Cursed is everyone who hangs on 40a 41tree”-- 14in order that 42in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we 43would receive 44the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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Notes

1. Galatians 3:1 Lit O ↩
2. Galatians 3:1 Gal 1:2 ↩
3. Galatians 3:1 1 Cor 1:23; Gal 5:11 ↩
4. Galatians 3:2 Or law ↩
5. Galatians 3:2 Rom 10:17 ↩
6. Galatians 3:2 Lit of faith ↩
7. Galatians 3:3 Or with ↩
8. Galatians 3:3 Or ending with ↩
9. Galatians 3:4 Or experience ↩
10. Galatians 3:4 1 Cor 15:2 ↩
11. Galatians 3:5 2 Cor 9:10; Phil 1:19 ↩
12. Galatians 3:5 1 Cor 12:10 ↩
13. Galatians 3:5 Or works of power ↩
14. Galatians 3:5 Or law ↩
15. Galatians 3:5 Rom 10:17 ↩
16. Galatians 3:5 Lit of faith ↩
17. Galatians 3:6 Rom 4:3 ↩
18. Galatians 3:6 Gen 15:6 ↩
19. Galatians 3:7 Rom 4:16; Gal 3:9 ↩
20. Galatians 3:7 Luke 19:9; Gal 6:16 ↩
21. Galatians 3:8 Lit justifies ↩
22. Galatians 3:8 Lit nations ↩
23. Galatians 3:8 Gen 12:3 ↩
24. Galatians 3:9 Gal 3:7 ↩
25. Galatians 3:9 Lit the believing Abraham ↩
26. Galatians 3:10 Or law ↩
27. Galatians 3:10 Deut 27:26 ↩
28. Galatians 3:11 Gal 2:16 ↩
29. Galatians 3:11 Or in ↩
30. Galatians 3:11 Or law ↩
31. Galatians 3:11 Or the one who is righteous by faith will live ↩
32. Galatians 3:11 Hab 2:4; Rom 1:17; Heb 10:38 ↩
33. Galatians 3:12 Or And ↩
34. Galatians 3:12 Or based on ↩
35. Galatians 3:12 Lev 18:5; Rom 10:5 ↩
36. Galatians 3:12 I.e., the statutes of the Law ↩
37. Galatians 3:12 I.e., the statutes of the Law ↩
38. Galatians 3:13 Gal 4:5 ↩
39. Galatians 3:13 Deut 21:23 ↩
40. Galatians 3:13 Acts 5:30 ↩
41. Galatians 3:13 Or cross; lit wood; see Deut 21:23 ↩
42. Galatians 3:14 Rom 4:9, 16; Gal 3:28 ↩
43. Galatians 3:14 Gal 3:2 ↩
44. Galatians 3:14 Acts 2:33; Eph 1:13 ↩

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