because we know that a man does not come into right standing with God by doing what the law commands, but by simple trust in Christ, we too have trusted in Christ Jesus, in order to come into right standing with God by simple trust in Christ and not by doing what the law commands, because by doing what the law commands no man can come into right standing with God.

For through the law I myself have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God.

I never can nullify the unmerited favor of God. For if right standing with God could come through law, then Christ died for nothing.

I want to ask you only this one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by doing what the law commands, or by believing the message you heard?

Now when He supplies you with the Spirit and performs His wonder-works among you, does He do it because you do what the law commands, or because you believe the message that you heard --

For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

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."

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us -- for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who is hanged on a tree" --

I mean this: The law which was given four hundred and thirty years later could not annul the contract which had already been ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise.

For if our inheritance depends on the law, it can no longer depend on the promise. But it was by promise that God so graciously bestowed it upon Abraham.

Then what about the law? It was added later on to increase transgressions, until the descendant to whom the promise was made should come, enacted through the agency of angels in the person of an intermediary.

Is the law then contrary to God's promises? Of course not. For if a law had been given that was able to impart life, surely, then, right standing would have come through law.

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 when the proper time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to law,

to ransom those who were subject to law, so that we might be adopted as sons.

Tell me, you who want to be subject to law, will you not listen to what the law says?

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

You people, whoever you are among you, who try to get into right standing with God, through law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have missed the way of 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 the law.

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

Practice bearing one another's burdens, and in this way carry out the law of Christ.

Indeed, the very men who let themselves be circumcised do not themselves observe the law. But they simply want you to let yourselves be circumcised, so that they can boast of you as members of their party.