YOU FOOLISH GALATIANS!

Lectionary passage: Galatians 3:1-5 - You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified! ²The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard? ³Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? ⁴Did you experience so much for nothing?—if it really was for nothing. ⁵Well then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?

You foolish Galatians! How come you
have let someone hide the truth from you?
Before your eyes we had sincerely
showed Christ crucified to you clearly.
Did you get the Spirit by keeping
the law, as if someone by heaping
good works could obtain one's salvation?
You know that your justification
was not a reward for achieving
but God's gracious gift for believing.
0 foolish Galatians!  How could you
so quickly forget all the good you
saw God do among you, because you
believed what you heard?  So it does you
no good to impose the old burden,
for keeping the law is a burden!