For if the service connected with condemnation had such splendor, the service resulting in right standing with God will surely far surpass it in splendor.

He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

Now I hope that you will learn that I am standing the test.

Now if, in our efforts to come into right standing with God through union with Christ, we have proved ourselves to be sinners like the heathen themselves, does that make Christ a party to our sin? Of course not.

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

just as "Abraham put his faith in God, and it was credited to him as right standing with God"?

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."

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.

So the law has been our attendant to lead us to Christ, so that we might through faith obtain right standing with God.

This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.

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