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          DASV: Galatians 3    

1 You foolish Galatians! Who bewitched you? Was it not before
your eyes that Jesus Christ was openly crucified?
2 There is only one thing I want to ask you: Did you receive
the Spirit by works of the law or by believing what you heard?
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now
made perfect in the flesh?
4 Have you suffered all these things for nothing? --if it really
was for nothing.
5 Does He, who gives you the Spirit and works miracles among
you, do it by your doing works of the law or by believing what
you heard?
6 Just as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as
righteousness,
7 know that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.
8 The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by
faith, when it proclaimed the gospel to Abraham saying “All
nations will be blessed in you.”
9 So those who believe are blessed along with Abraham,
who believed.
10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a
curse, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not
keep doing everything written in the book of the law.”
11 Now obviously no one is justified before God by the law,
because “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”
12 But the law is not based on faith; but the one who does
works will live by them.
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, by becoming
a curse for us; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who
hangs on a tree,”
14 so that the blessing of Abraham by Christ Jesus might
come to the Gentiles and so that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit by faith.

15 Brothers, here is a human example: Once a contract is
ratified, no one can nullify it or add to it.
16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring.
It does not say “And to your descendents,” as of many;
but as of one, “and to your descendent,” who is Christ.
17 This is my point: The law, which came four hundred and
thirty years later, does not cancel a covenant ratified
beforehand by God, so as to nullify the promise.
18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, it is no more
just a promise, but God has granted it to Abraham by a promise.
19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of
transgressions, until the descendent should come to whom
the promise had been made. It was implemented through
angels by the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not for only one party; but God is one.
21 Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely
not! For if a law had been given which could give life,
then righteousness would have been by the law.
22 But the Scriptures imprisoned everything under sin, that
the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to
those who believe.
23 But before faith came, we were locked up under the law,
imprisoned until faith could be revealed.
24 So that the law became our tutor until Christ came, so
that we might be justified by faith.
25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a
tutor.

26 For you are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ
Jesus.
27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have
put on Christ.
28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, bond or free, male
or female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, heirs
according to the promise.

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