From work on PDF Gal 3-6

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 \v 1 Foolish Galatians! Who has put a spell on you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly displayed as crucified. 
-\v 2 This is the only thing I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard?
+\v 2 This is the only thing I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?
 \v 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to finish by the flesh?
 
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-\v 4 Have you suffered so many things for nothing—if indeed it was for nothing?
+\v 4 Have you suffered so many things for nothing—if indeed it was in vain?
 \v 5 Does he who gives the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by the works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
 
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 \v 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. It does not say, "to descendants," referring to many, but instead to only one, "and to your descendant," who is Christ.
 
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-\v 17 Now what I mean is this: The law, which came 430 years afterward, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God.
+\v 17 Now what I am saying is this: The law, which came 430 years afterward, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God, to nullify the promise.
 \v 18 For if the inheritance comes by the law, then it no longer comes by promise. But God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
 
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-\v 19 What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of trespasses, until the descendant of Abraham would come to whom the promise had been made. The law was put into force through angels by a mediator.
+\v 19 What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the descendant of Abraham would come to whom the promise had been made. The law was ordained through angels by the hands of a mediator.
 \v 20 Now a mediator implies more than one person, but God is one.
 
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-\v 1 I am saying that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is owner of the entire estate.
-\v 2 But he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.
+\v 1 I am saying that the heir, for whatever time he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is owner of the entire estate.
+\v 2 But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
 
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 \v 3 So also, when we were children, we were enslaved to the elemental principles of the world.
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 \v 10 You observe days and new moons and seasons and years!
-\v 11 I am afraid for you that somehow my work with you may have been for nothing. 
+\v 11 I am afraid for you that somehow my labor with you may have been in vain. 
 
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 \v 12 I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I also have become like you. You did me no wrong.
-\v 13 But you know that it was because of a physical illness that I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time.
-\v 14 Though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
+\v 13 But you know that it was because of a disease of the flesh that I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time.
+\v 14 Though my flesh put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
 
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 \v 15 Where then is your blessing now? For I testify to you that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.
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 \v 23 One was born by the slave girl according to the flesh, but the other was born by the free woman through promise.
 
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-\v 24 These things may be interpreted as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One of them is from Mount Sinai and she gives birth to children who are slaves. This is Hagar.
+\v 24 These things may be interpreted as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One of them is from Mount Sinai and she bears children into slavery. This is Hagar.
 \v 25 Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia; and she represents the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
 
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 \v 27 For it is written,
 \q "Rejoice, you barren one who does not give birth;
 \q cry out and shout for joy, you who are not suffering the pains of childbirth;
-\q because the children of the abandoned woman are more numerous 
+\q because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous 
 \q than those of the woman who has a husband."
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