Galatians 3
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Justification through Faith
1You foolish # 3:1 Rm 1:14 Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you, # 3:1 Other mss add not to obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed # 3:1 Other mss add among you as crucified? # 3:1 Mt 27:22 2I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard? # 3:2 Lit hearing with faith, also in v. 5 3Are you so foolish? After beginning by the Spirit, are you now finishing by the flesh? 4Did you experience # 3:4 Or suffer,# 3:4 Php 1:29 so much for nothing — if in fact it was for nothing? 5So then, does God give you the Spirit and work miracles # 3:5 Mk 13:22 among you by your doing the works of the law? Or is it by believing what you heard — 6just like Abraham who believed God, # 3:6 Jn 14:1 and it was credited to him for righteousness? # 3:6 Gn 15:6,# 3:6 Gn 15:6
7You know, then, that those who have faith, these are Abraham’s sons. # 3:7 Jn 8:37,39 8Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel ahead of time to Abraham, # 3:8 Gn 16:15; Jn 8:37; Heb 2:16 saying, All the nations # 3:8 Or Gentileswill be blessed through you. # 3:8 Gn 12:3; 18:18,# 3:8 Gn 12:3; 18:18 9Consequently, those who have faith are blessed with Abraham, # 3:9 Jn 8:39 who had faith. # 3:9 Or with believing Abraham
Law and Promise
10For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, # 3:10 Jms 3:10 because it is written, # 3:10 Ac 15:15 Everyone who does not do everything written in the book of the law is cursed. # 3:10 Dt 27:26,# 3:10 Dt 27:26; Rm 4:15 11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live # 3:11 Php 1:21 by faith. # 3:11 Hab 2:4,# 3:11 Hab 2:4 12But the law is not based on faith; instead, the one who does these things will live by them. # 3:12 Lv 18:5,# 3:12 Lv 18:5 13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, # 3:13 1Pt 2:24 because it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. # 3:13 Dt 21:23,# 3:13 Dt 21:23; Ac 5:30 14The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith. # 3:14 Rm 4:16
15Brothers and sisters, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to a validated human will. # 3:15 Or a human covenant that has been ratified 16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say “and to seeds,” as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed, # 3:16 Gn 12:7; 13:15; 17:8; 24:7,# 3:16 Gn 12:7; 13:15; 17:8; 24:7 who is Christ. 17My point is this: The law, which came 430 years later, # 3:17 Gn 15:13; Ex 12:40; Ac 7:6 does not invalidate a covenant previously established by God # 3:17 Other mss add in Christ and thus cancel the promise. 18For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise; but God has graciously given it to Abraham through the promise.
The Purpose of the Law
19Why, then, was the law given? # 3:19 Rm 4:15; 5:20 It was added for the sake of transgressions # 3:19 Or because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels # 3:19 Gn 16:7; Mt 13:49; Lk 1:11; Ac 5:19; Rv 14:6 by means of a mediator. # 3:19 Heb 8:6 20Now a mediator is not just for one person alone, but God is one. # 3:20 Dt 6:4 21Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if the law had been granted with the ability to give life, then righteousness would certainly be on the basis of the law. 22But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin’s power, # 3:22 Lit under sin,# 3:22 Rm 6:23 so that the promise might be given on the basis of faith # 3:22 Rm 3:22 in Jesus Christ to those who believe. # 3:22 Mk 11:24; Jn 3:16; Ac 10:43; Rm 10:9; 1Pt 1:8–10 23Before this faith # 3:23 Jd 3 came, we were confined under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed. # 3:23 Lk 10:21 24The law, then, was our guardian until Christ, # 3:24 Mt 5:17; Col 2:17; Heb 9:10 so that we could be justified by faith. 25But since that faith # 3:25 Jd 3 has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26for through faith you are all sons of God in Christ Jesus.
Sons and Heirs
27For those of you who were baptized into Christ have been clothed with Christ. # 3:27 Pr 31:25 28There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, # 3:28 Jn 8:33 male and female; # 3:28 Rm 10:12; 1Co 12:13; Gl 5:6 since you are all one # 3:28 Jn 17:11 in Christ Jesus. 29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs # 3:29 Rm 4:14; 8:17 according to the promise. # 3:29 Rm 4:13
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Galatians 3
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1O senseless Galatians, who bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua was publicly shown forth as having been TALUI AL HAETZ#3:1 Dt 21:23 (hanging on the tree). 2This one thing only I want to learn from you: did you receive the Ruach HaKodesh by means of ma'asim of Gezetz (works of Law) or by means of the hearing of emunah? 3You lack seichel; having begun in the Ruach HaKodesh, will you now be perfected in the basar? 4Did you suffer so many things lashav (in vain)? — if it really was lashav. 5So then, Hashem who is supplying to you the Ruach HaKodesh and producing nifla'ot (miracles) among you, by what means does He do it, by ma'asim of Gezetz or by the hearing of emunah? 6— Just as Avraham Avinu HE'EMIN B'HASHEM V'YACHSHEVEHA LO TZEDAKAH#3:6 Gn 15:6 (believed Hashem and it [his faith] was accounted to him for righteousness).
7Know then, that the Bnei HaEmunah, these ones are the Bnei Avraham Avinu! 8And the Kitvei HaKodesh, having foreseen that Hashem would yatzdik (justify) the Goyim by emunah, preached the Besuras HaGeulah beforehand to Avraham Avinu, saying, V'NIVRECHU VO KOL GOYEI HA'ARETZ#3:8 Gn 18:18; 12:3 (All the peoples of the earth will be blessed in you). 9For this reason, the ones of emunah receive the bracha (blessing) with Avraham Avinu hama'amin (the believer).
10For as many as are seeking “YITZDAK IM HASHEM” by ma'asim of Gezetz are under a kelalah (curse); for it has been written, ARUR ASHER LO YAKIM ES DIVREI HATORAH HAZOT LA'ASOT OTAM#3:10 Dt 27:26; cf Ro 2:10 (Cursed is everyone who does not uphold, abide by all the words of this Torah to do them). 11Now it is clear that not one person is YITZDAK IM HASHEM (justified with G-d) by Gezetz, because V'TZADDIK BE'EMUNATO YICHEYEH#3:11 Hab 2:4 (the righteous by his faith will live). 12But the Gezetz is not of emunah, but the man YA'ASEH OTAM VACHAI#3:12 Lv 18:5 (who does these things will live [by them]). 13Moshiach redeemed us from the kelalah (curse) of the Torah, having become a kelalah (curse) on behalf of us, because it has been written, KILELAT HASHEM is on NIVLATO TALUI AL HAETZ#3:13 Dt 21:23 (Curse of G-d is on the NEVELAH (body, corpse) being hanged on the tree), 14In order that to the Goyim the Bracha of Avraham Avinu might come by Moshiach Yehoshua, that the havtachah (promise) of the Ruach haKodesh we might receive through emunah.
15Achim B'Moshiach, I speak according to human dimyon (analogy). Even a brit (covenant) having been confirmed by Bnei Adam no one sets aside or adds to it. 16Now to Avraham Avinu were spoken the havtachot (promises) and to his ZERA#3:16 Gn 22:18 (seed). He does not say V'LIZERAECHAH (and to your seeds), as concerning many, but as concerning one, “and to the ZERA of you,” and that ZERA is Moshiach. 17And this I say: a brit (covenant), which was previously confirmed by Hashem, cannot be annulled so as to abolish the havtachah (promise) by the Mattan Torah — which was given arba me'ot usheloshim shanah (four hundred and thirty years) later.#3:17 Ex 12:40 18For if the nachalah (inheritance) is based on Gezetz, it is no longer based on havtachah (promise); but Hashem has given the nachalah to Avraham Avinu by havtachah (promise).
19Why then the Mattan Torah (Giving of the Torah)? The Torah was added because of peysha'im, until the ZERA (Moshiach) should come to whom the havtachah had been made.#3:19 Gn 22:18 Now the Torah was administered through malachim#3:19 Dt 33:2; Ps 68:18 by the hand of a metavech.#3:19 Lv 26:46; Num 36:13 20Now the metavech is not for only one, but Elohim hu echad.#3:20 Dt 6:4
21Is the Torah, mimeila (consequently, as a result), against the havtachot (promises) of Hashem? Chas v'Shalom (G-d forbid)! For if Gezetz had been given that had the ko'ach (power) to affect hitkhadshut (regeneration), then to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM (justified with G-d) would indeed have been based on ma'asim of Gezetz. 22But the Kitvei HaKodesh consigned all things under HaChet (Sin),#3:22 Dt 27:26 that the havtachah (promise) might be given by emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua to the ma'aminim.
23But before Emunah came, we were being held in custody, being confined and guarded for the about-to-be-revealed Emunah. 24This is the result: the Gezetz functioned as our omenet (governess) unto Moshiach, that by emunah we might be YITZDAK IM HASHEM. 25But Emunah having come, we are no longer under an omenet (governess). 26For through emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, you are all yeladim of Elohim. 27For as many as have had a tevilah into Moshiach have clothed yourselves with Moshiach. 28There is not Yehudi nor Yevani (Greek), there is not eved (servant) nor Ben Chorin (freedman), there is not zachar (male) nor nekevah (female), for you are all echad in Moshiach Yehoshua. 29And, if you belong to Moshiach,#3:29 Isa 53:10 then you are of the ZERA of Avraham Avinu, you are yoreshim (heirs) according to the havtachah (promise).
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