Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!

Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia.

idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions,

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation!

Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.

and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”

I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!