¹⁷ “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found ^(A)sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! ¹⁸ For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. ¹⁹ For I ^(B)through the law ^(C)died to the law that I might ^(D)live to God. ²⁰ I have been ^(E)crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh ^(F)I live by faith in the Son of God, ^(G)who loved me and gave Himself for me. ²¹ I do not set aside the grace of God; for ^(H)if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died ^[a]in vain.”

Justification by Faith^(I)

3 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you ^[b]that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed ^[c]among you as crucified? ² This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, ^(J)or by the hearing of faith? ³ Are you so foolish? ^(K)Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by ^(L)the flesh? ^4 (M)Have you suffered so ^[d]many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

⁵ Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— ⁶ just as Abraham ^(N)“believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” ⁷ Therefore know that only ^(O)those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. ⁸ And ^(P)the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, ^(Q)“In you all the nations shall be blessed.” ⁹ So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

The Law Brings a Curse

¹⁰ For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, ^(R)“Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” ¹¹ But that no one is ^[e]justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for ^(S)“the just shall live by faith.” ¹² Yet ^(T)the law is not of faith, but ^(U)“the man who does them shall live by them.”

^13 (V)Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ^(W)“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), ^14 (X)that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the ^(Y)Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive ^(Z)the promise of the Spirit through faith.