Gal 3:1-18 | ESV | STEP | O foolish Galatians ! Who has bewitched you ? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified .

1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? ^aIt was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly ^bportrayed as crucified. 2 Let me ask you only this: ^cDid you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by ^dhearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? ^eHaving begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by ^{▼▼Or now ending with} the flesh? 4 ^gDid you suffer ^{▼▼Or experience} so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and ⁱworks miracles among you do so ^jby works of the law, or by hearing with faith— 6 just as ^kAbraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

7 Know then that it is ^lthose of faith who are ^mthe sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that ⁿGod would justify ^{▼▼Or count righteous; also verses 11, 24} the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ^p“In you shall all the nations be blessed.” 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

10 For all who rely on works of the law are ^qunder a curse; for it is written, ^r“Cursed be everyone who does not ^sabide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11 Now it is evident that ^tno one is justified before God by the law, for ^u“The righteous shall live by faith.” ^{▼▼Or The one who by faith is righteous will live} 12 But the law is not of faith, rather ^w“The one who does them shall live by them.” 13 Christ ^xredeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ^y“Cursed is everyone who is hanged ^zon a tree”— 14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might ^aacome to the Gentiles, so that ^abwe might receive ^acthe promised Spirit ^{▼▼Greek receive the promise of the Spirit} through faith.

The Law and the Promise

15 ^aeTo give a human example, brothers: ^{▼▼Or brothers and sisters} ^ageven with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. 16 Now ^ahthe promises were made ^aito Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, ^aj“And to your offspring,” who is Christ. 17 This is what I mean: the law, which came ^ak430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as ^alto make the promise void. 18 For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but ^amGod gave it to Abraham by a promise.