For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

No flesh

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

In his sight

If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

For by the

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

General references

And the Lord God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

it is not from works, so that no one can boast.