Ruin and wretchedness mark their paths,

and he was afterward given the mark of circumcision as the stamp of God's acknowledgment of the uprightness based on faith that was his before he was circumcised, so that he should be the forefather of all who, without being circumcised, have faith and so are credited with uprightness,

For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.