who to save us from the present wicked world gave himself for our sins at the will of our God and Father.

The Scripture foresaw that God would accept the heathen as upright in consequence of their faith, and preached the good news in advance to Abraham in the words, "All the heathen will be blessed through you."

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.

These men are making much of you, but not with honorable intentions. They want to shut you out, so that you will have to make much of them.

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

A little yeast will make all the dough rise.

I am confident in the Lord that you will not take a different view. The man who is unsettling you will have to pay the penalty for it, no matter who he is.

But if you bite one another and eat one another, take care, or you will be destroyed by one another.

I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

Every man ought to test his own work, and then whatever satisfaction he has will be with reference to himself, and not in comparison with someone else.

For everyone will have to carry his own load.

Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows.

The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Peace and mercy be on all who will follow this rule, and on the true Israel of God.