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who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a slave of Christ.

For you heard my way of life when I was in Judaism, that with surpassing zeal I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

But when God was pleased, He having separated me from my mother's belly, and having called me through His grace, Isa. 49:1

And what I write to you, behold, before God I do not lie.

and they glorified God in me.

But from those seeming to be something (of what kind they were then does not matter to me; God does not accept the face of man), for those seeming to be important conferred nothing to me;

For through Law I died to Law, that I might live to God.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, the One loving me and giving Himself over on my behalf.

I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness is through Law, then Christ died without cause.

Even "as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness," Gen 15:6

And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, preached the gospel before to Abraham: "All the nations will be blessed" "in you." Gen. 12:3

And that no one is justified by Law before God is clear because, "The just shall live by faith." Hab. 2:4

And I say this, A covenant having been ratified before to Christ by God, the Law coming into being four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul the promise, so as to abolish it .

For if the inheritance is of Law, it is no more of promise; but God has given it to Abraham through promise.

But the Mediator is not of one, but God is one.

Then is the Law against the promises of God? Let it not be! For if a law had been given which had been able to make alive, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.

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

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, having come into being out of a woman, having come under Law,

And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba! Father!