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For if the inheritance comes from the legal part of the Torah, it no longer comes from a promise. But God gave it to Avraham through a promise.

Now a mediator implies more than one, but God is one.

Does this mean that the legal part of the Torah stands in opposition to God's promises? Heaven forbid! For if the legal part of the Torah which God gave had had in itself the power to give life, then righteousness really would have come by legalistically following such a Torah.

For in union with the Messiah, you are all children of God through this trusting faithfulness;

but when the appointed time arrived, God sent forth his Son. He was born from a woman, born into a culture in which legalistic perversion of the Torah was the norm,

Now because you are sons, God has sent forth into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, the Spirit who cries out, "Abba!" (that is, "Dear Father!").

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

In the past, when you did not know God, you served as slaves beings which in reality are non-gods.

But now you do know God, and, more than that, you are known by God. So how is it that you turn back again to those weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to enslave yourselves to them once more?

and even though my physical condition must have tempted you to treat me with scorn, you did not display any sign of disdain or disgust. No, you welcomed me as if I had been an angel of God, as if I had been the Messiah Yeshua himself!

The one by the slave woman was born according to the limited capabilities of human beings, but the one by the free woman was born through the miracle-working power of God fulfilling his promise.

You, brothers, like Yitz'chak, are children referred to in a promise of God.

You who are trying to be declared righteous by God through legalism have severed yourselves from the Messiah! You have fallen away from God's grace!

and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!

Don't delude yourselves: no one makes a fool of God! A person reaps what he sows.

And as many as order their lives by this rule, shalom upon them and mercy, and upon the Isra'el of God!

Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

the God of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the glorious Father, to give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you will have full knowledge of him.

But God is so rich in mercy and loves us with such intense love

That is, God raised us up with the Messiah Yeshua and seated us with him in heaven,