Oct. 22, 2023

Gal 3:1  You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 

Gal 3:2  I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? 

Gal 3:3  Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? 

Gal 3:4  Have you experienced so much in vain—if it really was in vain? 

Gal 3:5  So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? 

Gal 3:6  So also Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." 

Gal 3:7  Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. 

Gal 3:8  Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you." 

Gal 3:9  So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. 

Gal 3:10  For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." 

Gal 3:11  Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because "the righteous will live by faith." 

Gal 3:12  The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, "The person who does these things will live by them." 

Gal 3:13  Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole." 

Gal 3:14  He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.