And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.