Galaziarrei 3
1 O Galatiano çoroác, norc encantatu çaituztéz eguia obedi ezteçaçuen? ceiney beguién aitzinean lehenetic representatu içan baitzaiçue Iesus Christ, çuen artean crucificatua?
Foolish Galatians! Who has been fascinating you — you before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was depicted upon the cross?
2 Haur solament iaquin nahi dut çuetaric, Legueco obréz Spiritu saindua recebitu vkan duçue, ala fedearen predicationeaz?
Here is the one thing that I want to find out from you — Did you receive the Spirit as the result of obedience to Law, or of your having listened with faith?
3 Hain çoro çarete, Spirituaz hassiric, orain haraguiaz acaba deçaçuen?
Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?
4 Alfer hambat suffritu vkan duçue? baldin alfer-ere bada.
Did you go through so much to no purpose? — if indeed it really was to no purpose!
5 Bada, Spiritua çuey fornitzen drauçuenac, eta verthuteac çuetan obratzen dituenac, Legueco obréz eguiten du, ala fedearen predicationeaz?
He who supplies you abundantly with his Spirit and endows you with such powers — does he do this as the result of obedience to Law? or as the result of your having listened with faith?
It is just as it was with Abraham — ‘He had faith in God, and his faith was regarded by God as righteousness.’
You see, then, that those whose lives are based on faith are the Sons of Abraham.
8 Eta Scripturác aitzinetic ikussiric ecen fedeaz Iaincoac iustificatzen dituela Gentilac, aitzinetic euangelizatu vkan drauca Abrahami, cioela, Benedicatuac içanen dituc hitan Gende guciac.
And Scripture, foreseeing that God would pronounce the Gentiles righteous as the result of faith, foretold the Good News to Abraham in the words — ‘Through thee all the Gentiles shall be blessed.’
9 Bada, fedezcoac benedicatzen dirade Abraham fidelarequin.
And, therefore, those whose lives are based on faith share the blessings bestowed upon the faith of Abraham.
10 Ecen norere Legueco obretaric baitirade, maledictionearen azpian dirade: ecen scribatua da, Maradicatua da norere ezpaita egonen Legueco liburän scribatuac diraden gauça gucietan, hec eguin ditzançát.
All who rely upon obedience to Law are under a curse, for Scripture says — ‘Cursed is every one who does not abide by all that is written in the Book of the Law, and do it.’
11 Eta Legueaz nehor eztela iustificatzen Iaincoa baithan, gauça claroa da: ecen iustoa fedez vicico da.
Again, it is evident that no one is pronounced righteous before God through Law, for we read — ‘Through faith the righteous man shall find Life.’
12 Eta Leguea ezta fedetic: baina gauça hec eguinen dituen guiçona, vicico da hetan.
But the Law is not based on faith; no, its words are — ‘Those who practice these precepts will find Life through them.’
13 Baina Christec redemitu vkan gaitu Leguearen maledictionetic, bera guregatic maledictione eguin içanic: (ecen scribatua da, Maradicatua da çurean vrkatua den gucia)
Christ ransomed us from the curse pronounced in the Law, by taking the curse on himself for us, for Scripture says — ‘Cursed is any one who is hanged on a tree.’
14 Abrahamen benedictionea Gentiletara hel ledinçát Iesus Christez, eta Spirituaren promessa fedez recebi deçagunçát.
And this he did that the blessing given to Abraham might be extended to the Gentiles through their union with Jesus Christ; that so, through our faith, we also might receive the promised gift of the Spirit.
15 Anayeác, guiçonén ançora minço naiz, Appoinctamendubat guiçon-batena badere, authoritatez confirmatua bada, nehorc eztu hausten ez emendatzen.
To take an illustration, Brothers, from daily life — No one sets aside even an agreement between two men, when once it has been confirmed, nor does he add conditions to it.
16 Abrahami bada promessac erran içan çaizquio, eta haren haciari. Eztu erraiten, Eta haciey, anhitzez minço baliz beçala: baina batez beçala, Eta hire haciari, cein baita Christ.
Now it was to Abraham that the promises were made, ‘and to his offspring.’ It was not said ‘to his offsprings,’ as if many persons were meant, but the words were ‘to thy offspring,’ showing that one person was meant — and that was Christ.
17 Haur bada diot, lehenetic Iaincoaz Christen respectuz confirmatu içan den alliançá, laur-ehun eta hoguey eta hamar vrtheren buruän ethorri içan den Legueac eztuela hausten, promessa aboli deçançát.
My point is this — An agreement already confirmed by God cannot be canceled by the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to cause the promise to be set aside.
18 Ecen baldin heretagea Leguetic bada, ez ia promessetic: baina Abrahami promessetic eman vkan drauca Iaincoac.
If our heritage is the result of Law, then it has ceased to be the result of a promise. Yet God conferred it on Abraham by a promise.
19 Certaco da beraz Leguea? Transgressionén causaz eratchequi içan da, ethor leiteno haci hura ceini promessa eguin içan baitzayó, eta Leguea ordenatu içan da Aingueruéz, Ararteco baten escuz.
What, then, you ask, was the use of the Law? It was a later addition, to make men conscious of their wrong-doings, and intended to last only till the coming of that ‘offspring’ to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator.
20 Eta Arartecoa ezta batena: baina Iaincoa bat da.
Now mediation implies more than one person, but God is one only.
21 Leguea beraz Iaincoaren promessén contra eratchequi içan da? Guertha eztadila. Ecen eman içan baliz Leguea ceinec viuifica ahal leçan, segur Leguetic liçate iustitiá.
Does that set the Law in opposition to God’s promises? Heaven forbid! For, if a Law had been given capable of bestowing Life, then righteousness would have actually owed its existence to Law.
22 Baina ertsi vkan du Scripturác gucia bekatuaren azpian, promessa Iesus Christen fedeaz eman lequiençát sinhesten duteney.
But the words of Scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, upon faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.
23 Bada fedea ethor cedin baino lehen, Leguearen azpian beguiratzen guinen ertsiac reuelatzeco cen federa heltzeco.
Before the coming of faith, we were kept under the guard of the Law, in bondage, awaiting the Faith that was destined to be revealed.
24 Bada, Leguea gure pedagogo içan da Christgana, fedez iustifica guentecençát.
Thus the Law has proved a guide to lead us to Christ, in order that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith.
25 Baina fedea ethorriz gueroztic, ezgara guehiagoric pedagogoren azpian.
But now that faith has come we no longer need a guide.
26 Ecen guciác Iaincoaren haour çarete Iesus Christ baithango fedeaz.
For you are all Sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus.
27 Ecen batheyatu içan çareten guciéc Christ iaunci vkan duçue.
For all of you who were baptized into union with Christ clothed yourselves with Christ.
28 Ezta Iuduric ez Grecquic, ezta sclaboric ez libreric, ezta arric ez emeric: ecen çuec gucioc bat çarete Iesus Christean.
All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.
29 Eta baldin çuec Christenac baçarete, beraz Abrahamen haci çarete, eta promessaren arauez heredero.
And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham’s offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance.
