Study Desk

I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

So then, does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law? Or is it by believing what you heard—

just like Abraham who believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness?

Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel ahead of time to Abraham, saying, All the nationswill be blessed through you.

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.

My point is this: The law, which came 430 years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously established by God and thus cancel the promise.

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise; but God has graciously given it to Abraham through the promise.

Now a mediator is not just for one person alone, but God is one.

for through faith you are all sons of God in Christ Jesus.

When the time came to completion, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then God has made you an heir.

But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elements? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

You did not despise or reject me though my physical condition was a trial for you. On the contrary, you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus himself.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I am warning you about these things—as I warned you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap,

May peace come to all those who follow this standard, and mercy even to the Israel of God!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.