Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

For I could wish that I myself were accursed -- cut off from Christ -- for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."