1 Oh foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you? *
2 This only would I learn of you, Did you receiv the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing that brought supernatural belief and trust?
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made complete by the flesh?
4 Have you suffered so many things in vain? If it is yet in vain.
5 He therefore that supplies to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing that brings supernatural belief and trust? *
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him into righteousness.
7 Know you therefore that they who are of supernatural belief and trust, the same are the mature son of Abraham.
8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through supernatural belief and trust, preached the gospel to Abraham before, saying, "In you shall all nations be blessed."
9 So then those who are of supernatural belief and trust, are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is everyone who continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by supernatural belief and trust.
12 And the law is not of supernatural belief and trust, but, The man that does them shall live in them.
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree:
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through supernatural belief and trust.
15 Brothers, I speak after the manner of men; Though it is but a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no man disannuls, or adds to what has been ordained.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He says not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your seed, which is Christ.
17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God into Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
19 What purpose then serves the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, true righteousness could have been by the law.
22 But the scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by supernatural belief and trust of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23 But before supernatural belief and trust came, we were kept under the law, shut up into the supernatural belief and trust which should afterwards be unveiled. *
24 Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us into Christ, that we might be justified by supernatural belief and trust.
25 But after that supernatural belief and trust has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For you are all the mature sons of God by supernatural belief and trust, which is by Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond 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 and heirs according to the promise.