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And We Died To The Law As a Rule of Life, And Now Live By Faith In The Son of God

¹⁷ But if ^[a] while seeking to be declared-righteous in Christ, we also ourselves were found to be sinners^[b], is then Christ a minister of sin^[c]? May it never be! ¹⁸ For if I am building again these^[d] things which I tore-down^[e], I am demonstrating^[f] myself to be a transgressor. ¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the Law in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified-with Christ! ²⁰ And I no longer am living, but Christ is living in me. And what I am now^[g] living in the flesh^[h], I am living by^[i] faith in the Son of God— the One having loved me and handed Himself over for me. ²¹ I am not setting-aside^[j] the grace of God! For if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died without-a-reason!

Who Has Bewitched You? Do You Live By The Spirit And Faith, Or The Flesh And Law?

3 O foolish Galatians, who bewitched^[k] you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was portrayed^[l] as crucified? ² I want to learn only this from you: did you receive the Spirit by works of the Law or by the hearing^[m] of ^[n] faith? ³ Are you so foolish? Having begun-with^[o] the Spirit are you now perfecting-yourselves^[p] with the flesh? ⁴ Did you suffer^[q] so many things in-vain— if indeed it really was in-vain? ⁵ Did then the One supplying^[r] you the Spirit and working miracles among you do it because-of ^[s] works of the Law, or because-of the hearing of faith?

The Children of Abraham Are The Ones Living By Faith, Not By The Law

⁶ Just as Abraham “ believed God and it was credited to him for righteousness” [Gen 15:6], ⁷ know then that the ones of ^[t] faith— these are the sons^[u] of Abraham. ⁸ Now the Scripture, having foreseen that God declares the Gentiles righteous by faith, announced-the-good-news-beforehand to Abraham: that “All the Gentiles will be blessed in^[v] you”[Gen 12:3]. ⁹ So then the ones of faith are being blessed together-with Abraham, the man-of-faith^[w].