²⁰ I have been ^(A)crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh ^(B)I live by faith in the Son of God, ^(C)who loved me and gave Himself for me. ²¹ I do not set aside the grace of God; for ^(D)if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died ^[a]in vain.”

Justification by Faith^(E)

3 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you ^[b]that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed ^[c]among you as crucified? ² This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, ^(F)or by the hearing of faith? ³ Are you so foolish? ^(G)Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by ^(H)the flesh? ^4 (I)Have you suffered so ^[d]many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

⁵ Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— ⁶ just as Abraham ^(J)“believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” ⁷ Therefore know that only ^(K)those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. ⁸ And ^(L)the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, ^(M)“In you all the nations shall be blessed.” ⁹ So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

The Law Brings a Curse

¹⁰ For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, ^(N)“Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” ¹¹ But that no one is ^[e]justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for ^(O)“the just shall live by faith.” ¹² Yet ^(P)the law is not of faith, but ^(Q)“the man who does them shall live by them.”

^13 (R)Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ^(S)“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), ^14 (T)that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the ^(U)Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive ^(V)the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Glory Only in the Cross

¹¹ See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand! ¹² As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, ^(A)only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. ¹³ For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But God forbid that I should boast except in the ^(B)cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by ^[a]whom the world has been crucified to me, and ^(C)I to the world. ¹⁵ For ^(D)in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

Blessing and a Plea

¹⁶ And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

¹⁷ From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁸ Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.