Study Desk

For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ;

Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?

Did you experience so much for nothing?—if it really was for nothing.

so, you see, those who believe are the descendants of Abraham.

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.

So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental spirits of the world.

in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.

So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.

They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you may make much of them.

But just as at that time the child who was born according to the flesh persecuted the child who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.

So then, friends, we are children, not of the slave but of the free woman.

So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.

So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith.

Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory.

so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints,

so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.