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.

For it is through the Law that I have become dead to the Law, so that I may live for God.

I refuse to nullify the mercy of God. For if uprightness could be secured through law, then Christ died for nothing!

This is all I want to ask you: Did you receive the Spirit through doing what the Law commands, or through believing the message you heard?

When he supplies you with the Spirit and works wonders among you, is it because you do what the Law commands, or because you believe the message you heard?

For there is a curse upon all who rely on obedience to the Law, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who does not stand by everything that is written in the Book of the Law and obey it."

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.

Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree")

My point is this: An agreement already ratified by God cannot be annulled and its promise canceled by the Law, which arose four hundred and thirty years later.

If our inheritance rests on the Law, it has nothing to do with the promise. Yet it was as a promise that God bestowed it upon Abraham.

Then what about the Law? It was a later addition, designed to produce transgressions, until the descendant to which the promise was made should come, and it was enacted by means of angels, through an intermediary;

Is the Law then contrary to God's promises? By no means. For if a law had been given that could have brought life, uprightness would really have come through law.

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 when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law,

to ransom those who were subject to law, so that we might receive adoption.

Tell me this, you who want to be subject to law: Will you not listen to the Law?

I insist again to any man who lets himself be circumcised, that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law.

You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.

For the whole Law is summed up in one saying: "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not subject to law.

gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things!

Bear one another's burdens, and in that way carry out the law of the Christ.

Why, even those who let themselves be circumcised do not observe the Law themselves! But they want you to let yourselves be circumcised so that they can boast of that physical fact about you!