Galatians 3:8
Context3:8 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
Context3:11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith. 4
Galatians 3:24
Context3:24 Thus the law had become our guardian 5 until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous 6 by faith.
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 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.”