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but this only had they heard, that he who before persecuted us, now preacheth that faith which in time preceding he subverted:

because we know that a man is not made just by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus the Messiah; even we have believed in Jesus the Messiah, in order to be made just by faith in the Messiah, and not by the works of the law: for, by the deeds of the law, no flesh is made just.

And henceforth it is no more I who live, but the Messiah liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

This only would I learn from you, Was it by works of the law, that ye received the Spirit? or by the hearing of faith?

5 He therefore who giveth the Spirit in you, and who worketh miracles among you, [fn] by the deeds of the law? or by the hearing of faith?

Know ye, therefore, that those who are of faith, they are the children of Abraham.

For, because God knew beforehand that the Gentiles would be made just by faith, he preannounced it to Abraham; as saith the holy scripture, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

And that no one becometh just before God, by the law, is manifest: because it is written, The just by faith, shall live.

Now the law is not of faith; but, whoever shall do the things written in it, shall live by them.

that the blessing of Abraham might be on the Gentiles, through Jesus the Messiah; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

But the scripture hath inclosed all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus the Messiah might be given to them that believe.

But before the faith came, the law kept us shut up unto the faith that was to be revealed.

The law, therefore, was a monitor for us unto the Messiah, that we might become just by faith.

But the faith having come, we are not under the monitor.

For ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus the Messiah.

For we, through the Spirit, which is from faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

For, in the Messiah Jesus, circumcision is nothing, neither is uncircumcision, but the faith that is perfected by love.

Now, therefore, while we have the opportunity, let us practice good works towards all men, and especially towards them of the household of faith.