Galatians 3:10-18 - Law And Promise

¹⁰ For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them." ¹¹ Now it is evident that through the law no man is brought into right standing with God, for "The man in right standing with God will live by faith," ¹² and the law has nothing to do with faith, but it says, "It is the man who does these things that will live by doing them." ¹³ Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us -- for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who is hanged on a tree" -- ¹⁴ that the blessing promised to Abraham might through Jesus Christ come to the heathen, so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

¹⁵ Brothers, I am going to use a human illustration: Even a human contract, once it has been ratified, no one can annul or change. ¹⁶ Now the promises were made to Abraham and his descendant. It does not say, "and to your descendants," in the plural, but in the singular, "and to your descendant," that is, Christ. ¹⁷ I mean this: The law which was given four hundred and thirty years later could not annul the contract which had already been ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise. ¹⁸ For if our inheritance depends on the law, it can no longer depend on the promise. But it was by promise that God so graciously bestowed it upon Abraham.