Study Desk

"For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live for God.

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

So then, those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

What I am saying is this: the Law, which came 430 years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

But the Scripture has confined everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Therefore the Law has become our guardian to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.

So we too, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elementary principles of the world.

so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons and daughters.

So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

They eagerly seek you, not in a commendable way, but they want to shut you out so that you will seek them.

But as at that time the son who was born according to the flesh persecuted the one who was born according to the Spirit, so it is even now.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are not children of a slave woman, but of the free woman.

Brothers and sisters, even if a person is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual are to restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you are not tempted as well.

So then, while we have opportunity, let's do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

All who want to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,