1. O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth--before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?
2. this only do I wish to learn from you--by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?
3. so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?
4. so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.
5. He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you--by works of law or by the hearing of faith [is it]?
6. according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;
7. know ye, then, that those of faith--these are sons of Abraham,
8. and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham--
9. `Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,
10. for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed [is] every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law--to do them,'
11. and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'
12. and the law is not by faith, but--`The man who did them shall live in them.'