and the Law has nothing to do with faith, but declares, The man that has done these things shall live therein.

These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.

Now all this is an allegory, for these women are the two covenants; one from Mount Sinai, which is Hagar bearing children into bondage

envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.