Chapter 3

O foolish Galatians! who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been depicted crucified?

This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit in virtue of the works of the Law, or in virtue of hearing and believing?

Are you so foolish that after beginning in the Spirit, you now make a finish in the flesh?

Have you suffered so much in vain? if indeed it was in vain.

He therefore who gives the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the Law, or by the message of faith?

Even thus "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as justice." The Example of Abraham

Know therefore that the men of faith are the real sons of Abraham.

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, announced to Abraham beforehand, "In thee shall all the nations be blessed."

Therefore the men of faith shall be blessed with faithful Abraham. The Nature of the Law

For those who rely on the works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not hold to all things that are written in the book of the Law, to perform them."

But that by the Law no man is justified before God is evident, because "he who is just lives by faith."

But the Law does not rest on faith; but, "he who does these things, shall live by them."

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, becoming a curse for us; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet";

that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that through faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. The Promise of God

Brethren (I speak after the manner of men); yet even a man's will, once it has been ratified, no one annuls or alters.

The promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. He does not say, "And to his offsprings," as of many; but as of one, "And to thy offspring," who is Christ.

Now I mean this: The Law which was made four hundred and thirty years later does not annul the covenant which was ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.

For if the right to inherit be from the Law, it is no longer from a promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise. The Purpose of the Law

What then was the Law? It was enacted on account of transgressions, being delivered by angels through a mediator, until the offspring should come to whom the promise was made.

Now there is no intermediary where there is only one; but God is one.

Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? By no means. For if a law had been given that could give life, justice would truly be from the Law.

But the Scripture shut up all things under sin, that by the faith of Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

But before the faith came we were kept imprisoned under the Law, shut up for the faith that was to be revealed.

Therefore the Law has been our tutor unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

For you are all the children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

For all you who have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor freeman; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And if you are Christ's, then you are the offspring of Abraham, heirs according to promise.