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The freedom of faith

1YOU STUPID Galatians! You must have been bewitched -- you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly displayed on the cross!

2Answer me one question: did you receive the Spirit by keeping the law or by believing the gospel message?

3Can you really be so stupid? You started with the spiritual; do you now look to the material to make you perfect?

4Is all you have experienced to come to nothing -- surely not!

5When God gives you the Spirit and works miracles among you, is it because you keep the law, or is it because you have faith in the gospel message?

6Look at Abraham: he put his faith in God, and that faith was counted to him as righteousness.

7You may take it, then, that it is those who have faith who are Abraham's sons.

8And scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, declared the gospel to Abraham beforehand: “In you all nations shall find blessing.”

9Thus it is those with faith who share the blessing with faithful Abraham.

10On the other hand, those who rely on obedience to the law are under a curse; for scripture says, “Cursed is everyone who does not persevere in doing everything that is written in the book of the law.”

11It is evident that no one is ever justified before God by means of the law, because we read, “He shall gain life who is justified through faith.”

12Now the law does not operate on the basis of faith, for we read, “He who does this shall gain life by what he does.”

13Christ bought us freedom from the curse of the law by coming under the curse for our sake; for scripture says, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a gibbet.”

14The purpose of this was that the blessing of Abraham should in Jesus Christ be extended to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

15My friends, let me give you an illustration. When a man's will and testament has been duly executed, no one else can set it aside or add a codicil.

16Now, the promises were pronounced to Abraham and to his “issue”. It does not say “issues” in the plural, but “your issue” in the singular; and by “issue” is meant Christ.

17My point is this: a testament, or covenant, had already been validated by God; a law made four hundred and thirty years later cannot invalidate it and so render its promises ineffective.

18If the inheritance is by legal right, then it is not by promise; but it was by promise that God bestowed it as a free gift on Abraham.

19Then what of the law? It was added to make wrongdoing a legal offence; it was an interim measure pending the arrival of the “issue” to whom the promise was made. It was promulgated through angels, and there was an intermediary;

20but an intermediary is not needed for one party acting alone, and God is one.

21Does the law, then, contradict the promises? Of course not! If a law had been given which had power to bestow life, then righteousness would indeed have come from keeping the law.

22But scripture has declared the whole world to be prisoners in subjection to sin, so that faith in Jesus Christ should be the ground on which the promised blessing is given to those who believe.

23Before this faith came, we were close prisoners in the custody of law, pending the revelation of faith.

24The law was thus put in charge of us until Christ should come, when we should be justified through faith;

25and now that faith has come, its charge is at an end.

26It is through faith that you are all sons of God in union with Christ Jesus.

27Baptized into union with him, you have all put on Christ like a garment.

28There is no such thing as Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female; for you are all one person in Christ Jesus.

29So if you belong to Christ, you are the “issue” of Abraham and heirs by virtue of the promise.


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