By Faith, or by Works of the Law?

¹O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? zIt was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly aportrayed as crucified. ²Let me ask you only this: bDid you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by chearing with faith? ³Are you so foolish? dHaving begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by1 the flesh? ⁴eDid you suffer2 so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? ⁵Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and fworks miracles among you do so gby works of the law, or by hearing with faith— ⁶just as hAbraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

⁷Know then that it is ithose of faith who are jthe sons of Abraham. ⁸And the Scripture, foreseeing that kGod would justify3 the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, l“In you shall all the nations be blessed.” ⁹So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

¹⁰For all who rely on works of the law are munder a curse; for it is written, n“Cursed be everyone who does not oabide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” ¹¹Now it is evident that pno one is justified before God by the law, for q“The righteous shall live by faith.”4 ¹²But the law is not of faith, rather r“The one who does them shall live by them.” ¹³Christ sredeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, t“Cursed is everyone who is hanged uon a tree”— ¹⁴so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might vcome to the Gentiles, so that wwe might receive xthe promised Spirit5 through faith.

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