⁸ Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”^{[a](A) 9} So those who rely on faith^(B) are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.^(C)

¹⁰ For all who rely on the works of the law^(D) are under a curse,^(E) as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”^{[b](F) 11} Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God,^(G) because “the righteous will live by faith.”^{[c](H) 12} The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”^[d](I)