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Galatians 3:1-14You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort? 4 Have you suffered so much for nothing\u2014if it really was for nothing? 5 Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law, or because you believe what you heard?6 Consider Abraham: \u201cHe believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.\u201d 7 Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. 8 The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: \u201cAll nations will be blessed through you.\u201d 9 So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.10 All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: \u201cCursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.\u201d 11 Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, \u201cThe righteous will live by faith.\u201d 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, \u201cThe man who does these things will live by them.\u201d 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: \u201cCursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.\u201d 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.