1. O foolish Galatians, who cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Yeshua the Messiah was clearly portrayed as crucified.
2. I want to find out just one thing from you: did you receive the Ruach by deeds based on Torah, or by hearing based on trust?
3. Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Ruach, will you now reach the goal in the flesh?
4. Did you endure so much for nothing—if it really was for nothing?
5. So then, the One who gives you the Ruach and works miracles among you—does He do it because of your deeds based on Torah or your hearing based on trust and faithfulness?
6. Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”
7. know then that those who have faith are children of Abraham.
8. The Scriptures, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the Good News to Abraham in advance, saying, “All the nations shall be blessed through you.”
9. So then, the faithful are blessed along with Abraham, the faithful one.
10. For all who rely on the deeds of Torah are under a curse—for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep doing everything written in the scroll of the Torah.”
11. It is clear that no one is set right before God by Torah, for “the righteous shall live by emunah.”
12. However, Torah is not based on trust and faithfulness; on the contrary, “the one who does these things shall live by them.”
13. Messiah liberated us from Torah’s curse, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)—
14. in order that through Messiah Yeshua the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so we might receive the promise of the Ruach through trusting faith.
15. Brothers and sisters, I speak in human terms: even with a man’s covenant, once it has been confirmed, no one cancels it or adds to it.
16. Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. It doesn’t say, “and to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “and to your seed,” who is the Messiah.
17. What I am saying is this: Torah, which came 430 years later, does not cancel the covenant previously confirmed by God, so as to make the promise ineffective.