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1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified? 2 I just want to learn this from you. Did you 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,” 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 15 Brothers, I speak like men. Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it. 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “To your seed,” which is Christ. 17 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the
seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through
angels by the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not between one,
but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly
not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly
righteousness would have been of the law. 22 But the Scriptures shut up
all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be
given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept in
custody under the law, shut up to the faith which should afterwards be
revealed. 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ,
that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith is come, we are
no longer under a tutor. 26 For you
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