O senseless Galatians! who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was portrayed among you as crucified?
This only I wish to learn from you; received ye the Spirit by works of law, or by the report of faith?
Are ye so senseless? Having begun in Spirit, are ye now being perfected in flesh?
Suffered ye so many things in vain, if indeed in vain?
He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by works of law or by the hearing of faith?
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
Know then that they who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham.
And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, announced beforehand to Abraham: “In thee shall all the nations be blessed.”
So that they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
For as many as are of works of law are under curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doth not continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them;”
but that in virtue of law none is justified with God [is] evident, for “the just by faith shall
live;” but the law is not of faith, but he who hath done them shall live in virtue of them.
Christ bought us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, “Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree,”)
that unto the nations the blessing of Abraham might come in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Brethren, I speak according to man: a ratified covenant, though man’s, no one setteth aside or supplementeth.
But to Abraham were addressed the promises, and to his seed; he doth not say “and to seeds” as of many, but as of one “and to thy seed,” which is Christ.
Now this I say: the covenant ratified beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, doth not annul so as to make the promise void.
For if the inheritance is of law, it is no more of promise; but to Abraham by promise God graciously gave [it].
Why then the law? For the sake of transgressions it was added, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, being ordained by means of angels in a mediator’s hand.
But the mediator is not of one, but God is one.
[Is] therefore the law against the promises of God? Let it not be. For if there had been given a law which could quicken, in very truth by law would have been righteousness.
But the scripture hath shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those that believe.
But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up unto the faith about to be revealed.
So that the law hath been our tutor unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
But faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor;
for ye all are sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
For as many of you as were baptized unto Christ, put on Christ.
There is no Jew nor Greek, there is no bondservant nor freeman, there is no male and female; for all ye are one in Christ Jesus.
And if ye [be] Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, heirs according to promise.