they only heard people say, "The man who once persecuted us is now preaching the good news of the faith he tried to destroy,"

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

Just as Abraham had faith in God and it was credited to him as uprightness.

So you see, the real descendants of Abraham are the men of faith.

The Scripture foresaw that God would accept the heathen as upright in consequence of their faith, and preached the good news in advance to Abraham in the words, "All the heathen will be blessed through you."

So the men of faith share the blessing of Abraham and his faith.

That no one is accepted as upright by God for obeying the Law is evident because the upright will have life because of his faith,

and the Law has nothing to do with faith; it teaches that it is the man who does these things that will find life by doing them.

in order that the blessing given to Abraham might through Jesus Christ reach the heathen, so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

But the Scripture describes all mankind as the prisoners of sin, so that the promised blessing might on the ground of faith in Jesus Christ be given to those who have faith.

But before this faith came, we were kept shut up under the Law, in order to obtain the faith that was to be revealed.

So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer in the charge of the attendant.

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through your faith.

But we, by the Spirit, through faith wait for the uprightness we hope for.

For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to those who belong to the family of the faith.