1. O senseless Galatians! Who has put you under a spell, not to obey the truth – before whose eyes יהושע Messiah was clearly portrayed among you as impaled?
2. This only I wish to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of Torah, or by the hearing of belief?
3. Are you so senseless? Having begun in the Spirit, do you now end in the flesh?
4. Have you suffered so much in vain – if indeed in vain?
5. Is He, then, who is supplying the Spirit to you and working miracles among you, doing it by works of Torah, or by hearing of belief?
6. Even so Aḇraham “did believe Elohim, and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness.”
7. Know, then, that those who are of belief are sons of Aḇraham.
8. And the Scripture, having foreseen that Elohim would declare right the nations by belief, announced the Good News to Aḇraham beforehand, saying, “All the nations shall be blessed in you,”
9. so that those who are of belief are blessed with Aḇraham, the believer.
10. For as many as are of works of Torah are under the curse, for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all that has been written in the book of the Torah, to do them.”
11. And that no one is declared right by Torah before Elohim is clear, for “The righteous shall live by belief.”
12. And the Torah is not of belief, but “The man who does them shall live by them.”
13. Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, having become a curse for us – for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree.” –
14. in order that the blessing of Aḇraham might come upon the nations in Messiah יהושע, to receive the promise of the Spirit through belief.
15. Brothers, as a man I say it: a covenant, even though it is man’s, yet if it is confirmed, no one sets it aside, or adds to it.
16. But the promises were spoken to Aḇraham, and to his Seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Messiah.
17. Now this I say, Torah, that came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously confirmed by Elohim in Messiah, so as to do away with the promise.
18. For if the inheritance is by Torah, it is no longer by promise, but Elohim gave it to Aḇraham through a promise.