only they kept hearing people say, "Our former persecutor is now preaching as good news the faith which once he tried to destroy,"

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

just as "Abraham put his faith in God, and it was credited to him as right standing with God"?

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

Because the Scripture foresaw that God would bring the heathen into right standing with Himself on condition of faith, He beforehand proclaimed the good news to Abraham in the promise, "It is through you that all the heathen will be blessed."

So the men of faith are blessed as partners with trusting Abraham.

Now it is evident that through the law no man is brought into right standing with God, for "The man in right standing with God will live by faith,"

and the law has nothing to do with faith, but it says, "It is the man who does these things that will live by doing them."

that the blessing promised to Abraham might through Jesus Christ come to the heathen, so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

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

But before this faith came, we were kept locked up under the law, in preparation for the faith which was to be unveiled.

So the law has been our attendant to lead us to Christ, so that we might through faith obtain right standing with God.

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

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

For in union with Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor lack of it counts for anything; but only faith that is spurred on to action by love.

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us practice doing good to everybody, but especially to the members of the family of faith.