Galatians 3:9-14

3:9 So then those who believe ¹  are blessed along with Abraham the believer. 3:10 For all who ²  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.” ³  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.

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¹ tn Grk “those who are by faith,” with the Greek expression “by faith” (ἐκ πίστεως, ek pistew") the same as the expression in v. 8.

² tn Grk “For as many as.”

³ 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.

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.”