Galatians 3

¹ O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly shown forth crucified among you? ² This only I wish to learn from you, from works of law did you receive the spirit or from hearing of faith? Are you thus foolish? Having begun in [the] spirit are you completed¹ by [the] flesh? ⁴ Have you suffered so many [things] without reason? If it indeed [be] without reason. ⁵ The [one] therefore providing to you the spirit, and working ability in you, [Is it] from works of [the] law or from hearing of faith? ⁶ Just as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justness. ⁷ Be knowing therefore that those from faith, these are sons [of] Abraham. ⁸ For the scripture, having foreseen that from faith would God be justifying the nations, pre-good-newsed to Abraham that: All the nations will be blessed in you. ⁹ So those from trust are blessed with trustworthy Abraham. ¹⁰ For as many as are from [the] works of [the] law, they are under [a] curse, for it is written² that: All [are] accursed who do not remain in everything written in the scroll of the law, to do them. ¹¹ For that in [the] law is no one justified before God [is] evident, because: The just will zoe-live³ from faith. ¹² But the law is not from faith, but the [one] having done them will zoe-live³ in them. ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become [the] curse in our behalf, for it is written⁴:

Cursed [is] everyone hanging upon [the] tree,

¹⁴ in order that the blessing of Abraham become to the nations in Christ Jesus, in order that we receive the promise of the spirit through faith. ¹⁵ Brothers, I speak according to man. Likewise no man having ratified [a] contract⁵ sets it aside or adds to [it]. ¹⁶ So the promises were told to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say: And to his seed, as upon many, but as upon one: And to his seed, who is Christ. ¹⁷ But this he says: The law having come to be after 430 years did not invalidate the contract⁶ having been formerly ratified by God, to nullifying the promises. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance [is] from law, no longer is it from promise. ¹⁹ What therefore [is] the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed come to whom it was promised, commanded through angels, in [the] hand of [the] mediator. ²⁰ Now the mediator is not one [thing], but God is one [person]. ²¹ Is the law therefore according to the promises of God? May it not be: For if the law, being able, was given to make-zoe-alive, justness would certainly have been from [the] law. ²² But the scripture has shut everything under sin in order that the promise from faith in Jesus Christ be given to those believing. ²³ But before faith came we, being shut in, were confined for the faith [about] to be revealed. ²⁴ So the law became our tutor to Christ, in order that we be justified from faith. ²⁵ So faith having come we are not 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, you put on Christ. ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one [person] in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ So if you [be] of Christ, then you are seed of Abraham, heirs according to promise.

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¹or "perfected"

²Deut.27:26

³from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example: Matt.9:18, Matt.27:63, Luke.2:36, Acts.25:24, Rom.7:2, 2Cor.1:8, 1Thes.4:17, 1Tim.5:10, Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of Luke.15:13, Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see 1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.

⁴Deut.21:22-23

⁵or "will", "testament", "covenant"

⁶or "will", "testament", "covenant"