5. Does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
6. Even Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
7. Therefore know that those who are of faith are the sons of Abraham.
8. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel in advance to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”
9. So then those who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10. For all who rely on the works of the law are under the curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them.”
11. Now it is evident that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, for “The just shall live by faith.”
12. But the law is not of faith, for “The man who does them shall live by them.”
13. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by being made a curse for us—as it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—
14. so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15. Brothers, I am speaking in human terms: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is ratified, no one annuls or adds to it.
16. Now the promises were made to Abraham and his Seed. He does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your Seed,” meaning one, who is Christ.
17. And this I say, that the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul the covenant that was ratified by God in Christ, so as to nullify the promise.