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1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
2 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
4 Did you suffer so many things in vain-if indeed it was in vain?
5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith-
6 just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"? - Galatians 3:1-6
Paul was talking to the Galatians about how they thought they had to be circumcised so as to be saved. This is evident when we read Galatians 5:2 that says, if ye seek to be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. Nowhere does Paul say, if ye seek to love your neighbor, Christ shall profit you nothing. Circumcision is a part of the Old Law. Hebrews 7:12 says the Law has changed.
In fact, if you think you are not justified by keeping no law whatsoever, then you must believe you are not justified by keeping the command in 1 John 3:23.
It is obvious Paul is referring to the Law of Moses and not all law whatsoever in Galatians 3. For Paul says,
"And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect." (Galatians 3:17).
But law existed even before the written law.
Sin is merely transgression of the Law (1 John 3:4);
And men were destroyed in a global flood for their wickedness (Which is sin).
They were an example to all who would live ungodly thereafter (2 Peter 2:5-6).
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