Galatians 3

1 oh! foolish Galatian which? you to bewitch (the/this/who truth not to persuade *K*) which according to eye Jesus Christ to write/designate (in/on/among you *K*) to crucify

You foolish Galatians! Whose sophistry has bewitched you--you to whom Jesus Christ has been vividly portrayed as on the Cross?

2 this/he/she/it alone to will/desire to learn away from you out from work law the/this/who spirit/breath: spirit to take or out from hearing faith

Answer me this one question, "Is it on the ground of your obedience to the Law that you received the Spirit, or is it because, when you heard, you believed?"

3 thus(-ly) foolish to be to begin spirit/breath: spirit now flesh to complete

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external?

4 so great to suffer in vain if indeed and in vain

Have you endured such sufferings to no purpose--if indeed it has been to no purpose?

5 the/this/who therefore/then to supply you the/this/who spirit/breath: spirit and be active power in/on/among you out from work law or out from hearing faith

He who gives you His Spirit and works miracles among you--does He do so on the ground of your obedience to the Law, or is it the result of your having heard and believed:

6 as/just as Abraham to trust (in) the/this/who God and to count it/s/he toward righteousness

even as Abraham believed God, and his faith was placed to his account as righteousness?

7 to know therefore that/since: that the/this/who out from faith this/he/she/it son to be Abraham

Notice therefore that those who possess faith are true sons of Abraham.

8 to foresee then the/this/who a writing that/since: that out from faith to justify the/this/who Gentiles the/this/who God to speak good news the/this/who Abraham that/since: that be blessed in/on/among you all the/this/who Gentiles

And the Scripture, foreseeing that in consequence of faith God would declare the nations to be free from guilt, sent beforehand the Good News to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."

9 so the/this/who out from faith to praise/bless with the/this/who faithful Abraham

So we see that it is those who possess faith that are blessed with believing Abraham.

10 just as/how much for out from work law to be by/under: under curse to be to write for (that/since: that *no*) cursed all which no to abide in/by (in/on/among *k*) all the/this/who to write in/on/among the/this/who scroll the/this/who law the/this/who to do/make: do it/s/he

All who are depending upon their own obedience to the Law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed is every one who does not remain faithful to all the precepts of the Law, and practise them."

11 that/since: since then in/on/among law none to justify from/with/beside the/this/who God Urim that/since: since the/this/who just out from faith to live

It is evident, too, that no one can find acceptance with God simply by obeying the Law, because "the righteous shall live by faith,"

12 the/this/who then law no to be out from faith but the/this/who to do/make: do it/s/he (a human *K*) to live in/on/among it/s/he

and the Law has nothing to do with faith. It teaches that "he who does these things shall live by doing them."

13 Christ me to redeem out from the/this/who curse the/this/who law to be above/for me curse (that/since: since *no*) to write (for *k*) cursed all the/this/who to hang upon/to/against wood

Christ has purchased our freedom from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us--because "Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree."

14 in order that/to toward the/this/who Gentiles the/this/who praise the/this/who Abraham to be in/on/among Christ Jesus in order that/to the/this/who promise the/this/who spirit/breath: spirit to take through/because of the/this/who faith

Our freedom has been thus purchased in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing belonging to Abraham may come upon the nations, so that through faith we may receive the promised Spirit.

15 brother according to a human to say just as a human to affirm covenant none to reject or to add to

Brethren, even a covenant made by a man--to borrow an illustration from daily life--when once formally sanctioned is not liable to be set aside or added to.

16 the/this/who then Abraham to say the/this/who promise and the/this/who seed: offspring it/s/he no to say and the/this/who seed: offspring as/when upon/to/against much but as/when upon/to/against one and the/this/who seed: offspring you which to be Christ

(Now the promises were given to Abraham and to his seed. God did not say "and to seeds," as if speaking of many, but "and to your seed," since He spoke of only one--and this is Christ.)

17 this/he/she/it then to say covenant to establish by/under: by the/this/who God (toward Christ *K*) the/this/who with/after four hundred and thirty year to be law no to nullify toward the/this/who to abate the/this/who promise

I mean that the Covenant which God had already formally made is not abrogated by the Law which was given four hundred and thirty years later--so as to annul the promise.

18 if for out from law the/this/who inheritance no still out from promise the/this/who then Abraham through/because of promise to give grace the/this/who God

For if the inheritance comes through obedience to Law, it no longer comes because of a promise. But, as a matter of fact, God has granted it to Abraham in fulfilment of a promise.

19 which? therefore/then the/this/who law the/this/who transgression because of to add (to) until (which *NK(o)*) to come/go the/this/who seed: offspring which to profess to direct through/because of angel in/on/among hand mediator

Why then was the Law given? It was imposed later on for the sake of defining sin, until the seed should come to whom God had made the promise; and its details were laid down by a mediator with the help of angels.

20 the/this/who then mediator one no to be the/this/who then God one to be

But there cannot be a mediator where only one individual is concerned.

21 the/this/who therefore/then law according to the/this/who promise the/this/who God not to be if for to give law the/this/who be able to make alive really (out from law *NK(o)*) if to be the/this/who righteousness

God, however, is only one. Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? No, indeed; for if a Law had been given which could have conferred Life, righteousness would certainly have come by the Law.

22 but to confine the/this/who a writing the/this/who all by/under: under sin in order that/to the/this/who promise out from faith Jesus Christ to give the/this/who to trust (in)

But Scripture has shown that all mankind are the prisoners of sin, in order that the promised blessing, which depends on faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who believe.

23 before the/this/who then to come/go the/this/who faith by/under: under law to guard (to confine *N(k)O*) toward the/this/who to ensue faith to reveal

Before this faith came, we Jews were perpetual prisoners under the Law, living under restraints and limitations in preparation for the faith which was soon to be revealed.

24 so the/this/who law guardian me to be toward Christ in order that/to out from faith to justify

So that the Law has acted the part of a tutor-slave to lead us to Christ, in order that through faith we may be declared to be free from guilt.

25 to come/go then the/this/who faith no still by/under: under guardian to be

But now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor-slave.

26 all for son God to be through/because of the/this/who faith in/on/among Christ Jesus

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus;

27 just as/how much for toward Christ to baptize Christ to put on

for all of you who have been baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.

28 no there is Jew nor Greek, Gentile no there is slave nor free/freedom no there is male and female (all *NK(o)*) for you one to be in/on/among Christ Jesus

In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus.

29 if then you Christ therefore the/this/who Abraham seed: offspring to be (and *k*) according to promise heir

And if you belong to Christ, then you are indeed true descendants of Abraham, and are heirs in fulfilment of the promise.