Galatians 3:10-14
New Living Translation
10 But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.”[a] 11 So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”[b] 12 This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”[c]
13 But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”[d] 14 Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised[e] Holy Spirit through faith.
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- 3:10 Deut 27:26.
- 3:11 Hab 2:4.
- 3:12 Lev 18:5.
- 3:13 Deut 21:23 (Greek version).
- 3:14 Some manuscripts read the blessing of the.
Galatians 3:10-14
New English Translation
10 For all who[a] rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”[b] 11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.[c] 12 But the law is not based on faith,[d] but the one who does the works of the law[e] will live by them.[f] 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming[g] a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)[h] 14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles,[i] so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
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- Galatians 3:10 tn Grk “For as many as.”
- Galatians 3:10 tn Grk “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them.”sn A quotation from Deut 27:26.
- Galatians 3:11 tn Or “The one who is righteous by faith will live” (a quotation from Hab 2:4).
- Galatians 3:12 tn Grk “is not from faith.”
- Galatians 3:12 tn Grk “who does these things”; the referent (the works of the law, see 3:5) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Galatians 3:12 sn A quotation from Lev 18:5. The phrase the works of the law is an editorial expansion on the Greek text (see previous note); it has been left as normal typeface to indicate it is not part of the OT text.
- Galatians 3:13 tn Grk “having become”; the participle γενόμενος (genomenos) has been taken instrumentally.
- Galatians 3:13 sn A quotation from Deut 21:23. By figurative extension the Greek word translated tree (ζύλον, zulon) can also be used to refer to a cross (L&N 6.28), the Roman instrument of execution.
- Galatians 3:14 tn Or “so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus.”
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