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This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.

For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

Now an intermediary implies more than one; but God is one.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.

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

But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

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

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

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings that by nature are no gods;

but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits, whose slaves you want to be once more?

and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this rule, upon the Israel of God.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are also faithful in Christ Jesus:

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us,

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God--