03:01 .. you foolish Galatians .. who has bewitched you .. before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified 03:02 .. this is the only thing I want to find out from you .. did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law .. or by hearing with faith 03:03 .. are you so foolish .. having begun by the Spirit .. are you now being perfected by the flesh 03:04 .. did you suffer so many things in vain .. if indeed it was in vain 03:05 .. so then .. does he who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you .. do it by the works of the Law .. or by hearing with faith
03:06 .. even so Abraham believed God .. and it was reckoned to him as righteousness 03:07 .. therefore .. be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham 03:08 .. the scripture .. foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith .. preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham .. ......... saying . . . all the nations will be blessed in you 03:09 .. so then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham .. the believer 03:10 .. for as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse .. for it is written . . . ......... cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law .. to perform them 03:11 .. now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident .. for .. the righteous man shall live by faith 03:12 .. however .. the Law is not of faith .. on the contrary .. he who practices them shall live by them 03:13 .. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law .. having become a curse for us .. for it is written . . . ......... cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree 03:14 .. in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles .. ......... so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith
.................. intent of the Law
03:15 .. brethren .. I speak in terms of human relations .. even though it is only a man’s covenant .. yet when it has been ratified .. ......... no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it 03:16 .. now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed .. he does not say .. and to seeds .. as referring to many .. ......... but rather to one .. and to your seed .. that is .. Christ 03:17 .. what I am saying is this .. the Law .. which came four hundred and thirty years later .. does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God .. ......... so as to nullify the promise 03:18 .. for if the inheritance is based on law .. it is no longer based on a promise .. but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise 03:19 .. why the Law then .. It was added because of transgressions .. having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator .. ......... until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made 03:20 .. now a mediator is not for one party only .. whereas God is only one 03:21 .. Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God .. may it never be .. for if a law had been given which was able to impart life .. ......... then righteousness would indeed have been based on law 03:22 .. But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin .. so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe
03:23 .. but before faith came .. we were kept in custody under the law .. being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed 03:24 .. therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ .. so that we may be justified by faith 03:25 .. but now that faith has come .. we are no longer under a tutor 03:26 .. for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus 03:27 .. for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ 03:28 .. there is neither Jew nor Greek .. there is neither slave nor free man .. there is neither male nor female .. ......... for you are all one in Christ Jesus 03:29 .. and if you belong to Christ .. then you are Abraham’s descendants .. heirs according to promise
The purpose of the law was to give to sin the character of transgression and prove man helpless to save himself .. not to save man .. man is therefore shut up to faith in the work of Christ our Mediator .. as the only avenue of escape from the penalty of a broken law .. for Christ has borne the curse of the law for us and we become the children of God through him .. not by any works of our own . . . . v 13 .. what Christ suffered from men (the cross) was nothing to what he suffered for men .. the curse of the law was more than the cross of human suffering .. he bore that curse to the full as the divine Son of God .. redeeming the believer .. both from the curse and the dominion of the law .. Law therefore can neither Justify a sinner nor sanctify a believer