1 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed among you as crucified?
2 There is just one thing I want to find out from you: was it by works of the law that you received the Spirit, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made complete by the flesh?
4 Did you suffer so much for nothing, if indeed it really was for nothing?
5 So then, does the one who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do it by works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
6 It is just as with Abraham: he believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
7 Know, then, that those who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham.
8 And the Scripture, seeing in advance that God justifies the Gentiles by faith, announced the gospel ahead of time to Abraham: "In you all the nations will be blessed."
9 So those who are of faith receive the blessing together with Abraham, the man of faith.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them."
11 Now it is evident that no one is justified by the law before God, because "the righteous will live by faith."
12 But the law is not of faith; rather, "the one who does them will live by them."
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"),
14 in order that the blessing of Abraham might reach the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that through faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
15 Brothers, I speak in human terms: even a man's covenant, once it has been confirmed, no one sets aside or adds to it.
16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. It does not say "and to seeds," as referring to many, but as referring to one, "and to your seed," who is Christ.
17 Now this is what I say: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul a covenant confirmed beforehand by God with respect to Christ, so as to make the promise void.
18 For if the inheritance comes from the law, it no longer comes from a promise; but God freely gave it to Abraham through a promise.
19 What purpose, then, does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed to whom the promise was made should come, and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator does not stand for one party alone; but God is one.
21 Is the law, then, against the promises of God? Not at all! For if a law had been given that could make alive, righteousness really would be from the law.
22 But the Scripture shut up all things under sin, in order 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, shut up for the faith that was afterward to be revealed.
24 So then the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, so that we might be justified by faith.
25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
26 For all of you are sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.