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²I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the actions of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

³Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

⁴Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

⁵So the one who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, do they do it by the actions of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

⁶Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness." ⁷So know that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.

⁸The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed." ⁹So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

¹⁰For as many as are of the actions of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them." ¹¹Now, that no one is justified by the law before God is evident, for "The righteous will live by faith." ¹²The law is not of faith, but, "The person who does them will live by them." ¹³AnointedOne redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree", ¹⁴that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through AnointedOne Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

¹⁵Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a human covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.

¹⁶Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn't say, "To descendants", as of many, but as of one, "To your offspring", which is AnointedOne.

¹⁷Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in AnointedOne, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

¹⁸For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

¹⁹What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

²⁰Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

²¹Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

²²But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus AnointedOne might be given to those who believe.

²³But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

²⁴So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to AnointedOne, that we might be justified by faith.

²⁵But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

²⁶For you are all children of God, through faith in AnointedOne Jesus.

²⁷For as many of you as were baptized into AnointedOne have put on AnointedOne.

²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in AnointedOne Jesus.

²⁹If you are AnointedOne's, then you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according to promise.

Galatians Chapter 4

¹But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is Lord of all, ²but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

³So we also, when we were children, were held in slavery under the elemental principles of the world.

⁴But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, ⁵that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children.

⁶And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!" ⁷So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through AnointedOne.

⁸However at that time, not knowing God, you were in slavery to those who by nature are not gods.

⁹But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in slavery all over again?

¹⁰You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

¹¹I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

¹²I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong, ¹³but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

¹⁴What was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as AnointedOne Jesus.

¹⁵What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

¹⁶So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

¹⁷They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

¹⁸But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁹My little children, of whom I am again in childbirth until AnointedOne is formed in you - ²⁰but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

²¹Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

²²For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.

²³However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

²⁴These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to slavery, which is Hagar.

²⁵For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in slavery with her children.

²⁶But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

²⁷For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break out and shout, you that aren't in childbirth . For the desolate women have more children than she who has a husband." ²⁸Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

²⁹But just as he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

³⁰However, what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman." ³¹So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.

Galatians Chapter 5

¹For freedom AnointedOne has made us free; so stand firm and don't be entangled again with a yoke of slavery.

²Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, AnointedOne will profit you nothing.

³Yes, I testify again to everyone who receives circumcision that they are a debtor to do the whole law.

⁴You are alienated from AnointedOne, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

⁵For we through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

⁶For in AnointedOne Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.

⁷You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

⁸This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

⁹A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

¹⁰I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

¹¹But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

¹²I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

¹³For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

¹⁴For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." ¹⁵But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

¹⁶But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

¹⁷For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

¹⁸But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

¹⁹Now the actions of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, ²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, ²¹envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God's Kingdom.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

²⁴Those who belong to AnointedOne have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

²⁵If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.

²⁶Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

Galatians Chapter 6

¹Brothers, even if a person is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.

²Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of AnointedOne.

³For if someone thinks themselves to be something when they are nothing, they deceives themselves.

⁴But let each person examine their own work, and then they will have reason to boast in themselves, and not in someone else.

⁵For everyone will bear their own burden.

⁶But let one who is taught in the word share all good things with one who teaches.

⁷Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a person sows, that they will also reap.

⁸For the one who sows to their own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

⁹Let's not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don't give up.

¹⁰So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward everyone, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

¹¹See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

¹²As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of AnointedOne.

¹³For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

¹⁴But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus AnointedOne, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁵For in AnointedOne Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything, but [being] a new creation.

¹⁶As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God's Israel.

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

¹⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus AnointedOne be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.