The Daily Audio Bible

¹⁷ “If then, while we seek to be made righteous by Christ, we ourselves are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin? May it never be!

¹⁸ “For if I build again the things that I have destroyed, I make myself a trespasser.

¹⁹ “For I, through the Law, am dead to the Law, that I might live to God.

²⁰ “I am crucified with Christ, but I live; yet not I anymore, but Christ lives in me. And, in that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith in the Son of God, Who has loved me, and given Himself for me.

²¹ “I do not abrogate the grace of God. For if righteousness is by the Law, then Christ died for nothing.”

3 O, foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth; before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

² This only would I learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of faith?

³ Are you so foolish, that after you have begun in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?

⁴ Have you suffered so many things in vain, if so be it even in vain?

⁵ He, therefore, who ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he do it through the works of the Law, or by the hearing of faith?

⁶ Rather, as Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness,

⁷ know you therefore that those who are of faith, are the same children of Abraham.

⁸ For the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, preached the Gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you shall all the Gentiles be blessed.”

⁹ So then those who are of faith, are blessed with faithful Abraham.