1 Justification by Faith 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?
2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, Rom. 10:16, 17 or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are you so foolish? (Gal. 4:9) Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by Heb. 7:16 the flesh?
4 Heb. 10:35 Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?
5 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?—
6 just as Abraham Gen. 15:6 “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
7 Therefore know that only John 8:39 those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
8 And Rom. 9:17 the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, Gen. 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14 “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”
9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
10 The Law Brings a Curse For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, Deut. 27:26 “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for Hab. 2:4; Rom. 1:17; Heb. 10:38 “the just shall live by faith.”
12 Yet Rom. 4:4, 5 the law is not of faith, but Lev. 18:5; Rom. 10:5 “the man who does them shall live by them.”
13 (Rom. 8:3) Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, Deut. 21:23 “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),
14 (Rom. 4:1–5, 9, 16; Gal. 3:28) that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Is. 42:1, 6; 49:6; Luke 2:32; Rom. 3:29, 30 Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive Is. 32:15 the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15 The Changeless Promise Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Heb. 9:17 Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.
16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of Gen. 22:18 one, Gen. 12:3, 7; 13:15; 24:7 “And to your Seed,” who is (1 Cor. 12:12) Christ.
17 And this I say, that the law, Gen. 15:13; Ex. 12:40; Acts 7:6 which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, (Rom. 4:13) that it should make the promise of no effect.
18 For if (Rom. 8:17) the inheritance is of the law, Rom. 4:14 it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
19 Purpose of the Law What purpose then does the law serve? John 15:22 It was added because of transgressions, till the Gal. 4:4 Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was Acts 7:53 appointed through angels by the hand Ex. 20:19; Deut. 5:5 of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, (Rom. 3:29) but God is one.
21 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.
22 But the Scripture has confined Rom. 11:32 all under sin, Rom. 4:11 that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.
24 Therefore Rom. 10:4 the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, Acts 13:39 that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
26 Sons and Heirs For you John 1:12 are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For Matt. 28:19; (Rom. 6:3); 1 Cor. 10:2 as many of you as were baptized into Christ Rom. 10:12; 13:14 have put on Christ.
28 (John 10:16); Rom. 3:22; 10:12; (Eph. 2:14); Col. 3:11 There is neither Jew nor Greek, (1 Cor. 12:13) there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all John 17:11; (1 Cor. 12:13; Eph. 2:15, 16) one in Christ Jesus.
29 And Gen. 21:10; Heb. 11:18 if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s Rom. 4:11; Gal. 3:7 seed, and Gen. 12:3; 18:18; Rom. 8:17 heirs according to the promise.