So they glorified God because of me.

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

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

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

I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

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

Now an intermediary is not for one party alone, but God is one.

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

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Father!”

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

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 worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

And all who will behave in accordance with this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God.

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

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

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.

From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,