Galatians 3:8

3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, ¹  saying, “All the nations ²  will be blessed in you.” ³ 

Galatians 3:11-14

3:11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith. ⁴  3:12 But the law is not based on faith, ⁵  but the one who does the works of the law ⁶  will live by them. ⁷  3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming ⁸  a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”) ⁹  3:14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, ¹⁰  so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

Galatians 3:24

3:24 Thus the law had become our guardian ¹¹  until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous ¹²  by faith.

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¹ tn For the Greek verb προευαγγελίζομαι (proeuangelizomai) translated as “proclaim the gospel ahead of time,” compare L&N 33.216.

² tn The same plural Greek word, τὰ ἔθνη (ta eqnh), can be translated as “nations” or “Gentiles.”

³ sn A quotation from Gen 12:3; 18:18.

⁴ tn Or “The one who is righteous by faith will live” (a quotation from Hab 2:4).

⁵ tn Grk “is not from faith.”

⁶ tn Grk “who does these things”; the referent (the works of the law, see 3:5) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ 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.

⁸ tn Grk “having become”; the participle γενόμενος (genomenos) has been taken instrumentally.

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ tn Or “so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus.”

¹¹ 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.

¹² tn Or “be justified.”