who gave Himself for our sins, to save us from the present wicked world in accordance with the will of our God and Father;

Because the Scripture foresaw that God would bring the heathen into right standing with Himself on condition of faith, He beforehand proclaimed the good news to Abraham in the promise, "It is through you that all the heathen will be blessed."

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."

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

For we, by the Spirit, are awaiting the hoped-for blessing which our right standing with God will bring us.

A little yeast will transform the whole dough.

By our union with the Lord I have confidence in you that you will take no other view of the matter. The man who is unsettling you will certainly pay the penalty for it, no matter who it turns out to be.

I mean this: Practice living by the Spirit and then by no means will you gratify the cravings of your lower nature.

Everyone should test his own work until it stands the test, and then he will have ground for boasting with reference to himself alone, and not with reference to someone else.

Do not be deceived anymore; God is not to be scoffed at. A person will reap just what he sows, whatever it is.

The person who sows to gratify his lower nature will reap destruction from that lower nature, and the person who sows to gratify his higher nature will reap eternal life from the Spirit.