Study Desk

I assure you before God that what I am writing to you is no lie.

And they glorified God because of me.

But as for the highly esteemed, whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism. For those men added nothing to my message.

For God, who was at work in Peter's apostleship to the Jews, was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

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

Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?

So also, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you."

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

What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to cancel the promise.

For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

A mediator is unnecessary, however, if there is only one party; but God is one.

Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

But when the time had fully come, 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 out, "Abba, Father!"

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

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.