GALACIA 3

Ang Pagtuman sa Kasuguan ukon ang Pagtuo kay Cristo

1  Kamo nga mga taga-Galacia, kulang ang inyo pag-intiendi! Ngaa nagapati kamo sa mga tawo nga nagadaya sa inyo nga sundon gid ninyo ang Kasuguan ni Moises ? Maathag ang akon ginsiling sa inyo kon ano ang kahulugan sang kamatayon ni Cristo sa krus.2  Indi bala nga nabaton na ninyo ang Espiritu Santo paagi sa inyo pagtuo sa Maayong Balita nga inyo nabatian, kag indi tungod sa inyo pagtuman sa Kasuguan?3  Matuod gid nga kulang ang inyo pag-intiendi. Kay sang pagsugod ninyo sang inyo pagtuo kay Cristo nagsalig kamo sa bulig sang Espiritu Santo , pero subong nagahunahuna kamo nga malambot ninyo ang inyo lalambuton bilang Kristohanon paagi sa inyo kaugalingon nga pagpaninguha.4 Ano, wala bala sing pulos ang inyo naeksperiensyahan? Indi mahimo nga wala lang ato sing pulos.

5  Indi bala nga ginhatagan kamo sang Dios sang Espiritu Santo kag paagi sa iya nagahimo kamo sang mga milagro? Kag indi bala nga nabaton ninyo ini paagi sa inyo pagtuo sa Maayong Balita nga inyo nabatian, kag indi tungod sa inyo pagtuman sa Kasuguan?
6  Pareho bala sang natabo kay Abraham. Suno sa Kasulatan , f + 6 Gen. 15:6. 7 Gani maathag nga ang mga tawo nga nagatuo sa Dios amo ang matuod nga mga kaliwat ni Abraham.8  Sang una pa gid nagsiling ang Kasulatan nga pakamatarungon sang Dios ang mga indi Judio tungod sang ila pagtuo sa iya. Suno sa Kasulatan, ining Maayong Balita ginpahayag sang Dios kay Abraham. Nagsiling siya, f + 8 Gen. 12:3; 18:18; 22:18.

9  Nagtuo si Abraham sa promisa sang Dios kag ginpakamaayo siya . Gani ang tanan nga nagatuo sa Dios ginapakamaayo man pareho kay Abraham.
10  Pero ang mga tawo nga nagasalig sa ila pagtuman sa Kasuguan ginpakamalaot na sang Dios . Kay suno sa Kasulatan, + 10 Deu. 27:26. 11  Maathag nga wala gid sing tawo nga pakamatarungon sang Dios tungod sang iya pagtuman sa Kasuguan. Kay nagasiling ang Kasulatan, f + 11b Hab. 2:4. 12  Ang Kasuguan wala sing labot sa pagtuo, kay nagasiling ang Kasulatan, f + 12 Lev. 18:5. 13  Ginpakamalaot na kita sang Dios tungod nga indi ta matuman ang tanan nga ginasiling sang Kasuguan. Pero gintubos kita ni Cristo sa sini nga pagpakamalaot. Siya amo ang ginpakamalaot sang Dios para sa aton. Kay nagasiling ang Kasulatan, + 13 Deu. 21:23.

14  it Amo ini ang ginhimo sang Dios agod paagi kay Cristo Jesus ang pagpakamaayo nga iya ginhatag kay Abraham mahatag man niya sa mga indi Judio, agod nga paagi sa aton pagtuo mabaton ta ang Espiritu Santo nga iya ginpromisa.

Ang Kasuguan kag ang Promisa sang Dios

15 Mga utod, hatagan ko kamo sang halimbawa. Wala sing may makapanginwala ukon makadugang sa kasugtanan nga ginpirmahan na.16  Karon, nagpromisa ang Dios kay Abraham kag sa iya kaliwat. Wala siya nagsiling kay Abraham , nga ang buot silingon madamo nga mga tawo, kundi ang siling niya, + 16 Tan-awa ang Gen. 12:7 kag ang . f nga ang buot silingon isa lang ka tawo; kag ini wala sing iban kundi si Cristo.17 Ang buot ko silingon amo ini: may ginpromisa ang Dios kay Abraham. Kag ato nga promisa nahimo sa wala pa ang Kasuguan, tungod nga mga 430 pa ka tuig ang nakaligad antes ginhatag sang Dios ang Kasuguan. Gani atong ginpromisa sang Dios indi mahimo nga gub-on ukon dulaon sang Kasuguan.

18 Kay kon mabaton naton ang pagpakamaayo paagi sa pagtuman sa Kasuguan, ti wala na sing pulos ang iya promisa kay Abraham. Pero ang matuod, ginhatag sang Dios ang pagpakamaayo bilang pagtuman sa iya promisa.
19  Kon amo sina, ngaa ginhatag pa gid ang Kasuguan? Ang Kasuguan gindugang sang Dios agod mahibaluan sang mga tawo nga nagapakasala sila. Kag ini hasta lang sa pag-abot sang kaliwat ni Abraham nga gintumod sang Dios sa iya promisa. Ginhatag sang Dios ina nga Kasuguan paagi sa iya mga anghel, kag sila ang naghatag sini sa mga tawo paagi sa manugpatunga.

20  it Pero ang promisa indi pareho sini . Wala ginhatag ini sang Dios kay Abraham paagi sa manugpatunga ukon kaupod ang mga anghel, kundi siya lang mismo.
21  Karon, basi maghunahuna kamo nga ang Kasuguan nagakontra sa mga promisa sang Dios. Wala! Kay kon ginhatag ang Kasuguan agod makahatag sang kabuhi nga wala sing katapusan , ina na lang kuntani ang paagi sang Dios agod pakamatarungon niya kita.

22 Sa baylo, nagasiling ang Kasuguan nga ang tanan nga tawo gin-ulipon sang sala. Gani ang mga nagatuo kay Jesu-Cristo amo lang ang makaangkon sang ginpromisa sang Dios.
23  Sang wala pa ang ginatawag nga pagtuo kay Cristo , daw pareho kita sa mga priso. Ang Kasuguan amo ang nagpriso sa aton hasta sa adlaw nga nag-abot si Cristo kag nagtuo na kita sa iya.24  Ang halimbawa sang Kasuguan pareho sang isa ka yaya nga nag-atipan sa aton hasta sa pag-abot ni Cristo, agod paagi sa aton pagtuo sa iya pakamatarungon niya kita.

25 Kag tungod nga subong ara na ang ginatawag nga pagtuo, wala na kita sa idalom sang pag-atipan sang sina nga yaya.
26 Kamo tanan mga anak na sang Dios tungod sang inyo pagtuo kay Cristo Jesus.27  Kay ginbautisohan kamo sa inyo paghiusa kay Cristo. + 27 sa inyo paghiusa kay Cristo: ukon, bilang tanda sang inyo paghiusa kay Cristo; ukon, agod mahiusa kamo kay Cristo. Kon sa mga bayo, ginsuksok na ninyo si Cristo.28 Karon palareho na lang ang mga Judio kag ang mga indi Judio, ang mga ulipon kag ang mga indi ulipon, ang mga lalaki kag ang mga babayi. Kita tanan palareho na lang tungod nga kita ara na kay Cristo Jesus.29  Kag tungod nga kamo iya na ni Cristo, mga kaliwat kamo ni Abraham, kag kon ano ang ginpromisa sang Dios kay Abraham mabaton man ninyo.

Galatians 3

Trust in Christ, Not the Law

1 You crazy Galatians! Did someone put a hex on you? Have you taken leave of your senses? Something crazy has happened, for it's obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. His sacrifice on the cross was certainly set before you clearly enough.

2-4 Let me put this question to you: How did your new life begin? Was it by working your heads off to please God? Or was it by responding to God's Message to you? Are you going to continue this craziness? For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it? Did you go through this whole painful learning process for nothing? It is not yet a total loss, but it certainly will be if you keep this up!

5-6 Answer this question: Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own presence, his Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves, does he do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust him to do them in you? Don't these things happen among you just as they happened with Abraham? He believed God, and that act of belief was turned into a life that was right with God.

7-8 Is it not obvious to you that persons who put their trust in Christ (not persons who put their trust in the law!) are like Abraham: children of faith? It was all laid out beforehand in Scripture that God would set things right with non-Jews by faith. Scripture anticipated this in the promise to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed in you."

9-10 So those now who live by faith are blessed along with Abraham, who lived by faith—this is no new doctrine! And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure. Scripture backs this up: "Utterly cursed is every person who fails to carry out every detail written in the Book of the law."

11-12 The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you. Habakkuk had it right: "The person who believes God, is set right by God—and that's the real life." Rule-keeping does not naturally evolve into living by faith, but only perpetuates itself in more and more rule-keeping, a fact observed in Scripture: "The one who does these things [rule-keeping] continues to live by them."

13-14 Christ redeemed us from that self-defeating, cursed life by absorbing it completely into himself. Do you remember the Scripture that says, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"? That is what happened when Jesus was nailed to the cross: He became a curse, and at the same time dissolved the curse. And now, because of that, the air is cleared and we can see that Abraham's blessing is present and available for non-Jews, too. We are all able to receive God's life, his Spirit, in and with us by believing—just the way Abraham received it.

15-18 Friends, let me give you an example from everyday affairs of the free life I am talking about. Once a person's will has been ratified, no one else can annul it or add to it. Now, the promises were made to Abraham and to his descendant. You will observe that Scripture, in the careful language of a legal document, does not say "to descendants," referring to everybody in general, but "to your descendant" (the noun, note, is singular), referring to Christ. This is the way I interpret this: A will, earlier ratified by God, is not annulled by an addendum attached 430 years later, thereby negating the promise of the will. No, this addendum, with its instructions and regulations, has nothing to do with the promised inheritance in the will.

19-20 What is the point, then, of the law, the attached addendum? It was a thoughtful addition to the original covenant promises made to Abraham. The purpose of the law was to keep a sinful people in the way of salvation until Christ (the descendant) came, inheriting the promises and distributing them to us. Obviously this law was not a firsthand encounter with God. It was arranged by angelic messengers through a middleman, Moses. But if there is a middleman as there was at Sinai, then the people are not dealing directly with God, are they? But the original promise is the direct blessing of God, received by faith.

21-22 If such is the case, is the law, then, an anti-promise, a negation of God's will for us? Not at all. Its purpose was to make obvious to everyone that we are, in ourselves, out of right relationship with God, and therefore to show us the futility of devising some religious system for getting by our own efforts what we can only get by waiting in faith for God to complete his promise. For if any kind of rule-keeping had power to create life in us, we would certainly have gotten it by this time.

23-24 Until the time when we were mature enough to respond freely in faith to the living God, we were carefully surrounded and protected by the Mosaic law. The law was like those Greek tutors, with which you are familiar, who escort children to school and protect them from danger or distraction, making sure the children will really get to the place they set out for.

25-27 But now you have arrived at your destination: By faith in Christ you are in direct relationship with God. Your baptism in Christ was not just washing you up for a fresh start. It also involved dressing you in an adult faith wardrobe—Christ's life, the fulfillment of God's original promise.

In Christ's Family

28-29 In Christ's family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. Also, since you are Christ's family, then you are Abraham's famous "descendant," heirs according to the covenant promises.