Galatians 3

 

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2 This is the only thing I would like to (ask and) hear from you, did you receive the Spirit (that raised Christ from the dead immortal) by performing the deeds of the law or by hearing the faith (of Jesus Christ and Him crucified)?

 

3 Are you so foolish (and void of understanding) that (you would reason that) having begun in the Spirit, you are now (going to be) made perfect (immortal in your flesh) by (relying upon) the (strength contained in your dying) flesh?

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4 Have you not endured so many things in vain? If you think that (the promise of the Spirit) is all for nothing (believing that you still need to rely upon the strength of your perishable flesh to bring you to perfection).

 

5 The One therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and brings forth miracles among you, is that Spirit (which comes from Him to you) born in you by your ability to perform the deeds of the law or by the hearing of the faith (of Jesus Christ)?

 

6 Even Abraham (has heard and) believed (upon the One) God (promised He would send, and he rejoiced to see His day) and the same life (and immortality) which comes through (the) faith (of Jesus Christ) was concluded by him (revealed) to be the way which he would inherit the life of God (and become the father of many nations).

 

7 Therefore we know then that they which are born from the faith (of Jesus Christ), the same are the descendants of Abraham (in the faith).

 

8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would (also freely) justify the heathen (unto His life) through faith, foretold the gospel to Abraham, saying, in you (and your seed) shall all nations be blessed (by believing upon the same faith).

 

9 So then they which are born from (hearing and believing upon the) faith (of Jesus Christ) are blessed with (the same life and immortality) along with faithful Abraham.

 

10 But as many as rely upon (the strength of their own hands) to perform the deeds of the law (to be justified to that same life) are under the curse (the way which will only serve them with death): because it is written, cursed is every one that does not continue (to believe) in all the things which are written in the book of the law to obey them (which obedience, was never found in their ability to perform carnal commandments but rather in trust toward God).

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11 And we know that no man is justified unto the life (and immortality of God) by his own strength and ability to perform the deeds of the law in the sight of God, it is (clearly) evident (and manifested in the faith of Jesus Christ), that the (one) justified to that life will live by (obeying the same) faith (revealed in Jesus Christ).

 

12 And (relying upon performing carnal commandments of) the law (to be justified unto life and immortality in your flesh) is not born from the faith (of Jesus Christ) but the man who wants to be judged (and justified) by them (is bound) to live in (the judgment of) them (and the fruit of death that worshipping the works of their own hands brings forth).

 

13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse (of death, which caused us to labor in our carnal minds to be justified unto blessing and life by performing the deeds of the law, which is) the curse of (death that used) the law (of carnal commandments to work the fruit of death in us), (but Christ) has become a curse for us (taking our death upon Himself): because it is written, cursed (by death) is every one that hangs on a tree:

 

14 So that the (same) blessing (and life promised) to Abraham (and his seed) might come also on the Gentiles through (the faith) of Jesus Christ; so that we all (Jew or Gentile) might receive the promise of the Spirit (being persuaded) by the faith (revealed in Jesus Christ).

 

15 Brethren, I speak as a man: As though it were only a man’s covenant, but (even with a man’s covenant) once it has been ratified, no man can (ignore), do away with, or add (anything) to it.

 

16 Now to Abraham and his seed (did God) make the promises. He does not say to seeds as if it's many, but as of one (seed), and to your seed which is Christ.

 

17 And furthermore I say this, that the covenant which was confirmed (beforehand) by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, can in no way cancel (or add to the promise of eternal life), that it could (in anyway) make the promise of no effect.

 

18 For if the inheritance (of eternal life) comes from (the deeds of) the law, it is no longer by promise: but God gave it to Abraham (and his seed) by promise.

 

19 For what purpose then did the law serve? It was added (not as an addition to the promise but) because of the transgressions of Israel when they were led out of Egypt by the strength of God’s hand (so that they might know that trusting in the works of their own hands for life was biting them with the serpents death, and so that their eyes would be kept on Gods promise to serve them with life) until (Christ), the seed to whom the promise was made should come (to fulfill it); and (because Moses could not see God’s face and live) it was given to him by the hands of the angels.

 

20 Now (with man) a mediator is not a mediator of one (but between two parties) but God is One (the only immortal, and since He is the only One who could promise, so also is He the only One who was able to perform it in Christ).

 

21 Is the law therefore against the promises of God (to give you His blessing and life as a gift)? May it never be said: For if there had been a law which was able to (conquer death and) impart (eternal) life (and immortality in the flesh), then the (only) life (which God saw fitting for all men from the beginning) could have come by the law.

 

22 But (the law being only a shadow and not the substance was not opposed to the promises but rather impotent in its ability to conquer death in the flesh and) the scripture had concluded that all were dead (laboring in bondage to be justified in their dying flesh), so that the promise (of eternal life, the substance of) which came by the faith revealed in Jesus Christ (being raised from the grave in immortal flesh) might be freely given to them that believe.

 

23 But before (the substance of) faith came (in Jesus Christ), we were kept under (the schoolmaster of) the law, shut in together (unto our eyes being fixed on the faith) until the faith that would afterward be revealed (would come in the death, burial, bodily resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ).

 

24 Wherefore the law was our tutor (chastising the way we formerly thought was unto life, showing us that trusting in the strength of our own hands only served us with the fruit of death and) leading us to Christ, so that we might be justified (to the life and immortality of God as sons) through the faith (revealed in Jesus Christ).

 

25 But after the faith is come (in Christ), we are no longer under a schoolmaster (having received the promise made immortal flesh).

 

26 For you are all (declared to be) the sons of God by the faith (revealed) in Christ Jesus (our Lord).

 

27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ (death) have put on (the same life of a son revealed in) Christ (in the resurrection).

 

28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer bond or free, there is not male or female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus (our Lord).