Galatians 1; Galatians 2; Galatians 3

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Galatians 1

1 Paul, an apostle-not from men or by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead-
2 and all the brothers who are with me: To the churches of Galatia.
3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from Him who called you by the grace of Christ, [and are turning] to a different gospel-
7 not that there is another [gospel], but there are some who are troubling you and want to change the gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel other than what we have preached to you, a curse be on him!
9 As we have said before, I now say again: if anyone preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him!
10 For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.
11 Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not based on a human point of view.
12 For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation from Jesus Christ.
13 For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God's church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it;
14 and I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
15 But when God, who from my mother's womb set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased
16 to reveal His Son in me, so that I could preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.
17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.
18 Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas, and I stayed with him 15 days.
19 But I didn't see any of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.
20 Now in what I write to you, I'm not lying. God is my witness.
21 Afterwards, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22 I remained personally unknown to the Judean churches in Christ;
23 they simply kept hearing: "He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy."
24 And they glorified God because of me.
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Galatians 2

1 Then after 14 years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.
2 I went up because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles-but privately to those recognized [as leaders]-so that I might not be running, or have run, in vain.
3 But not even Titus who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
4 [This issue arose] because of false brothers smuggled in, who came in secretly to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
5 But we did not yield in submission to these people for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain for you.
6 But from those recognized as important (what they really were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism)-those recognized as important added nothing to me.
7 On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter was for the circumcised.
8 For He who was at work with Peter in the apostleship to the circumcised was also at work with me among the Gentiles.
9 When James, Cephas, and John, recognized as pillars, acknowledged the grace that had been given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, [agreeing] that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
10 [They asked] only that we would remember the poor, which I made every effort to do.
11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned.
12 For he used to eat with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party.
13 Then the rest of the Jews joined his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, "If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel Gentiles to live like Jews?"
15 We are Jews by birth and not "Gentile sinners";
16 yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.
17 But if, while seeking to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are also found to be sinners, is Christ then a promoter of sin? Absolutely not!
18 If I rebuild those things that I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker.
19 For through the law I have died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ;
20 and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
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Galatians 3

1 You foolish Galatians! Who has hypnotized you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified?
2 I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?
3 Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?
4 Did you suffer so much for nothing-if in fact it was for nothing?
5 So then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?
6 Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,
7 so understand that those who have faith are Abraham's sons.
8 Now the Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and foretold the good news to Abraham, saying, All the nations will be blessed in you.
9 So those who have faith are blessed with Abraham, who had faith.
10 For all who [rely on] the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Cursed is everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law.
11 Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.
12 But the law is not based on faith; instead, the one who does these things will live by them.
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.
14 The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15 Brothers, I'm using a human illustration. No one sets aside even a human covenant that has been ratified, or makes additions to it.
16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say "and to seeds," as though referring to many, but and to your seed, referring to one, who is Christ.
17 And I say this: the law, which came 430 years later, does not revoke a covenant that was previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise.
18 For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.
19 Why the law then? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. [The law] was ordered through angels by means of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not for just one person, but God is one.
21 Is the law therefore contrary to God's promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly be by the law.
22 But the Scripture has imprisoned everything under sin's power, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23 Before this faith came, we were confined under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed.
24 The law, then, was our guardian described such a slave. This slave was not a teacher. until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith.
25 But since that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, described such a slave. This slave was not a teacher.
26 for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.