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\v 1 Foolish Galatians! Who has put a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified. 
\v 2 This is the only thing I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard?
\v 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to finish by the flesh?

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\v 4 Have you suffered so many things for nothing—if indeed it was for nothing?
\v 5 Does he who gives the Spirit to you and works miracles deeds among you do so by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?

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\v 6 Just as Abraham "believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness,"
\v 7 in the same way, understand, then, that it is those of faith who are the children of Abraham.
\v 8 The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."
\v 9 So then, those who of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

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\v 10 All who rely on the works of the law are under a curse; and so it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the book of the law, and do them."
\v 11 Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.
\v 12 But the law is not of faith, rather, "The person who does the works of the law must live by them."

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\v 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us— for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"—
\v 14 so that the blessing that of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

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\v 15 Brothers, let me speak in human terms. In a man-made contract, no one can set it aside or add to it, once it is established by law.
\v 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. It does not say, "to descendants," referring to many, but instead to only one, "and to your descendant," who is Christ.

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\v 17 Now what I mean is this: The law, which came 430 years afterward, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God.
\v 18 For if the inheritance comes by the law, then it no longer comes by promise. But God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

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\v 19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the descendant of Abraham would come to those to whom he had been promised. The law was put into force through angels by the hand of a mediator.
\v 20 Now a mediator implies more than one person, yet God is only one.

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\v 21 So is the law against the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, righteousness would certainly have come by that law.
\v 22 But instead, scripture imprisoned all things under sin. God did this so that his promise to save us by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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\v 23 But before faith in Christ came, we were imprisoned and confined by the law until the revelation of faith.
\v 24 So then the law became our guardian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.
\v 25 Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
\v 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

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\v 27 All of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
\v 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
\v 29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to promise.