Galatians, 3

Christian Community Bible

1 How foolish you are, Galatians! How could they bewitch you after Jesus Christ has been presented to you as crucified?

2 I shall ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by the practice of the Law, or by believing the message?

3 How can you be such fools: you begin with the Spirit and end up with the flesh!

4 So you have experienced all this in vain! Would that it were not so!

5 Did God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you, because of your observance of the Law or because you believed in his message?

6 Remember Abraham: he believed God and because of this was held to be a just man.

7 Understand then that those who follow the way of faith are sons and daughters of Abraham.

8 The Scriptures foresaw that by the way of faith, God would give true righteousness to the non-Jewish nations. For God's promise to Abraham was this: In you shall all the nations be blessed.

9 So now those who take the way of faith receive the same blessing as Abraham who believed;

10 but those who rely on the practice of the Law are under a curse, for it is written: Cursed is everyone who does not always fulfill everything written in the Law.

11 It is plainly written that no one becomes righteous, in God's way, by the Law: by faith the righteous shall live.

12 Yet the Law gives no place to faith, for according to it: the one who fulfills the commandments shall have life through them.

13 Now Christ rescued us from the curse of the Law by becoming cursed himself for our sake, as it is written: there is a curse on everyone who is hanged on a tree.

14 So the blessing granted to Abraham reached the pagan nations in and with Christ, and we received the promised Spirit through faith.

15 Brothers, listen to this comparison. When anyone has made his will in the prescribed form, no one can annul it or add anything to it.

16 Well now, what God promised Abraham was for his descendant. Scripture does not say: for the descendants, as if they were many. It means only one: this will be for your descendant, and this is Christ.

17 Now I say this: if God has made a testament in due form, it cannot be annulled by the Law which came four hundred and thirty years later; God's promise cannot be cancelled.

18 But if we now inherit for keeping the law, it is not because of the promise. Yet that promise was God's gift to Abraham.

19 Why then the Law? It was added with sin in mind; it was something added; that it was only valid until the descendant to whom the promise was addressed should come; and it was put into effect by the angels with Moses as a mediator

20 between them: if it were given by God himself, he is one.

21 Does the Law then compete with the promises of God? Not at all. Only if we had been given a Law capable of raising life, could righteousness be the fruit of the Law.

22 But the written Law actually closed out every viewpoint other than that of sin. So the believers receive the promise as the fruit of Christian faith.

23 Before the time of faith had come, the Law confined us and kept us in custody until the time in which faith would show up.

24 The Law then brought us to Christ as a child to his master, so that we be set right with God through faith.

25 With the coming of faith, we are no longer submitted to this guidance.

26 Now, in Christ Jesus, all of you are sons and daughters of God through faith.

27 All of you who were given to Christ through baptism, have put on Christ.

28 Here there is no longer any difference between Jew or Greek, or between slave or freed, or between man and woman: but all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

29 And because you belong to Christ, you are of Abraham's race and you are to inherit God's promise.




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Galatians 3 addresses the theme of justification by faith as opposed to justification by the works of the law. Paul argues that faith in Christ is the only means of being justified before God and that the law was given to show the need for this faith. The verses related to this theme are:

Romans 3:28 - "We therefore conclude that man is justified by faith, regardless of the works of the law." This verse summarizes Paul's central argument in Galatians 3 that justification comes only by faith and not by the works of the law.

Ephesians 2:8-9 - "For by grace you are saved, through faith; and it does not come from you; it is the gift of God. It does not come from the works, so that no one can glornize." This verse highlights God's grace as the source of salvation and emphasizes that faith is the means by which we receive this grace, not the works of the law.

Romans 4:3-5 - "For what does Scripture say? Abraham believed in God, and this was imputed to him as justice. Now, the one who does any work is not imputed to him the reward according to grace, but according to debt; but; , to the one who does not practice, but believes in the one who justifies the wicked, his faith is imputed to him as justice. " This verse uses Abraham's example to show that justification comes by faith and not by works, for Abraham's faith was imputed as justice.

Galatians 2:16 - "Knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ, to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law; No works of the law no flesh will be justified. " This verse reinforces Paul's argument in Galatians 3 that justification comes only by faith and not by the works of the law.

Philippians 3:9 - "And being found in Him, not having my righteousness that comes from the law, but that comes by faith in Christ, namely the righteousness that comes from God by faith." This verse points out that justice does not come through the works of the law, but only by faith in Christ.





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