But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

For it was by means of [this system of] law-keeping that I [realized I] was dead. This was so I could find life through a relationship with God.

This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

It is evident, too, that no one can find acceptance with God simply by obeying the Law, because "the righteous shall live by faith,"

But the Law is not based on faith; no, its words are--'Those who practice these precepts will find Life through them.'

But now that you have found God--or, rather, have been found by him--how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?

Let us not be fond of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

But let every man scrutinize his own conduct, and then he will find out, not with reference to another but with reference to himself, what he has to boast of.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

May all who rule their conduct by this principle find peace and mercy--they who are the Israel of God.