Galatians 3:10

3:10 For all who 1  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.” 2 

Galatians 3:13

3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming 3  a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”) 4 

Galatians 3:24

3:24 Thus the law had become our guardian 5  until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous 6  by faith.

1 tn Grk “For as many as.”

2 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.

3 tn Grk “having become”; the participle γενόμενος (genomenos) has been taken instrumentally.

4 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.

5 tn Or “disciplinarian,” “custodian,” or “guide.” According to BDAG 748 s.v. παιδαγωγός, “the man, usu. a slave…whose duty it was to conduct a boy or youth…to and from school and to superintend his conduct gener.; he was not a ‘teacher’ (despite the present mng. of the derivative ‘pedagogue’…When the young man became of age, the π. was no longer needed.” L&N 36.5 gives “guardian, leader, guide” here.

6 tn Or “be justified.”