3:1 O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you* that the truth is not to be obeyed, (in whose eyes, Jesus Christ was portrayed among you* as having been crucified)?
3:2 I only wish to learn this thing from you*. Did you* receive the Spirit from the works of the law or from the report of faith?
3:3 Are you* so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you* now being completed in the flesh?
3:4 You* suffered vainly so-many things? If actually it was even vainly.
3:5 Therefore, is the one supplying the Spirit to you*, and working miracles among you*, are they from the works of the law or from the report of faith?
3:6 Just-as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him *for righteousness. {Gen 15:6?}
3:7 Consequently*, you* know that those who are from faith, they are sons of Abraham.
3:8 Now the Scripture foreseeing that God would make righteous the Gentiles from faith, proclaimed the good-news beforehand to Abraham, saying, 'All the nations will be blessed in you. ' {Gen 12:3, 18:18, 22:18, 26:4, 28:14}
3:9 So-then those who are sons from faith are blessed together with the believing Abraham.
3:10 For* as many as are from the works of the law are under a curse; for* it has been written, 'Cursed is everyone who is not remaining in all things which have been written in the book of the law, and to practice them. ' {Deu 27:26}
3:11 Now it is evident that no one is made righteous in the law before God, because, 'The righteous will be living from faith. ' {Hab. 2:4}
3:12 Now the law is not from faith, but, 'The man who has practiced them will be living in them. ' {Lev 18:5}
3:13 Christ bought us up out of the curse of the law, after he became a curse on our behalf; for* it has been written, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree, ' {Deu 21:23}
3:14 in order that the blessing of Abraham might happen to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus; in order that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.
3:15 Brethren, I am speaking according to the manner of man, even a man's covenant* after it has been validated, no one nullifies or alters it with provisions.
3:16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He did not say and to seeds, as upon many, but as upon one and 'to your seed, ' which is the Christ. {Gen 22:18, 26:4}
3:17 Now I am saying this: the law, having happened four hundred and thirty years after ward, is not invalidating the covenant* that has been validated beforehand by God in reference to Christ, *that* it should do-away-with the promise. {Exo 12:40}
3:18 For* if the inheritance is from the law, it is no more from the promise, but God has granted it to Abraham through the promise.
3:19 Therefore why was the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed would come to whom it has been promised; having been appointed through messengers by the hand of an intermediary.
3:20 Now the intermediary is not of just one, but God is one.
3:21 Therefore is the law against the promises of God? Let it not happen! For* if a law was given which is able to give-life, righteousness really would have been from the law.
3:22 But the Scriptures locked up all things together under sin, in order that the promise which comes from the faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
3:23 But before the faith came, we were being guarded under the law, having been locked up together to the faith which was about to be revealed.
3:24 So-that the law has become our guardian* to bring us to Christ, in order that we might be made righteous from the faith.
3:25 But after the faith came, we are no longer under a guardian*.
3:26 For* you* are all sons of God, through the faith, in Christ Jesus.
3:27 For* as many as were immersed* into Christ were clothed with Christ.
3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondservant nor free man, there is no male and female; for* you* all are one in Christ Jesus.
3:29 But if you* are Christ's, you* are also Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.