Verse 8
Galatians 3:8
Free Bible Version
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All those who rely on keeping the law are under a curse, for as Scripture says, “Cursed is everyone who doesn't carefully obey everything that's written in the book of the law.”
Original Language Text
greek
προϊδοῦσα δὲ ἡ γραφὴ ὅτι ἐκ πίστεως δικαιοῖ τὰ ἔθνη ὁ θεὸς προευηγγελίσατο τῷ Ἀβραὰμ ὅτι Ἐνευλογηθήσονται ἐν σοὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη.
English Translation
But the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, announced the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "All the nations will be blessed in you."
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Chapter 3 Context
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You Galatians, you've lost your heads! Who has put you under a spell? The death of Yashua (Jesus) Ch...
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2
So tell me—did you receive the Spirit by keeping the law, or by placing your trust in what you heard...
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3
You really have lost your heads! You began living in the Spirit. Do you really think you can now mak...
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4
Did you go through so much suffering for nothing? (It really wasn't for nothing was it?)
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5
Let me ask you: does God (Elohim) give you the Spirit and do so many miracles among you because you...
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6
It's just like Abraham who “trusted God (Elohim), and was considered to be right.”
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7
In Scripture it was foreseen that God (Elohim) would make right the foreigners who trusted in him. T...
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8
All those who rely on keeping the law are under a curse, for as Scripture says, “Cursed is everyone...
9
Clearly nobody is made right with God (Elohim) by attempting to keep the law, for “Those who are mad...
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10
Obedience to the law has nothing to do with trusting God (Elohim). Scripture only says, “You will li...
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11
Christ has rescued us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. As Scripture says, “Curs...
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12
so that through Christ Yashua (Jesus) the blessing of Abraham could come to the foreigners as well,...
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13
Brothers and sisters, here's an example from daily life. If a contract is drawn up and agreed, signe...
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14
Now the promises were given to Abraham, and to his son. It doesn't say, “sons” as if plural, but sin...
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15
Let me explain. The law, coming four hundred and thirty years later, doesn't cancel the previous agr...
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16
If the inheritance is derived from obedience to the law, it no longer comes from the promise. But Go...
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17
What was the point of the law, then? It was added to show what wrongdoing really is, until the son c...
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18
But a mediator isn't needed when there's only one person involved. And God (Elohim) is one!
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19
So does the law work against God (Elohim)'s promises? Of course not! For if there was a law that cou...
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20
But Scripture tells us that we all are prisoners of sin. The only way we can receive God (Elohim)'s...
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21
The law was our guardian until Christ came, so that we could be made right by trusting him.
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22
But now this way of trusting Yashua (Jesus) has come, we no longer need such a guardian.
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23
There's no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female—you are all one in Christ Yashua (Jesu...
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If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's children, and you are heirs of the promise!
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