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And they praised God because of me.

Now those who were considered to be important (what they are makes no difference to me, for God does not discriminate among men), even these very persons did not contribute additional knowledge to me.

For through the law I am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

I am crucified with Christ: henceforth it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life which now I live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness comes by means of the law, then Christ died in vain.

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness,

Because God knew in advance that the Gentiles would be declared righteous through faith, he first preached to Abraham, as it is said in the Holy Scripture, In you shall all the Gentiles be blessed.

But that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, as it is written, The righteous shall live by faith.

And this I say, that the covenant which was previously confirmed of God in Christ cannot be repudiated and the promise nullified by the law which came four hundred and thirty years later.

For if the inheritance is by the law, then it would not be as the fulfillment of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Now a mediator does not represent one alone, but God is one.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Far be it: for if a law had been given, which could have wrought salvation, righteousness would truly have come as the result of the law.

For you are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son who, born of a woman, became subject to the law,

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying, Abba, Avon, O Father, our Father.

From now on you are not servants but sons; and if sons, then heirs of God through Jesus Christ.

Howbeit then, when you did not know God, you served those things which from their nature were not gods.

But now after you have known God, and, above all, are known of God, you turn again to those weak and poor principles, and you wish again to come under their bondage.

And yet you did not despise me, nor reject me on account of my weakness; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Jesus Christ.

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and all like things: those who practice these things, as I have told you before and I say to you now, they shall not inherit the kingdom of God.