<p class="bodytext">So<n id="1" /> when Joseph and Mary<n id="2" /> had performed<n id="3" /> everything according to the law of the Lord,<n id="4" /> they returned to Galilee, to their own town<n id="5" /> of Nazareth.<n id="6" />

A man named Ananias,<n id="1" /> a devout man according to the law,<n id="2" /> well spoken of by all the Jews who live there,<n id="3" />

And will not the physically uncircumcised man<n id="1" /> who keeps the law judge you who, despite<n id="2" /> the written code<n id="3" /> and circumcision, transgress the law?

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now before faith<n id="1" /> came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners<n id="2" /> until the coming faith would be revealed.

And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey<n id="1" /> the whole law.

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer<n id="1" /> the gifts prescribed by the law.

Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture,<n id="1" /> &#8220;<b><i>You shall love your neighbor as yourselfi>b>,&#8221;<n id="2" /> you are doing well.

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails<n id="1" /> in one point has become guilty of all of it.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> when the time came for their<n id="2" /> purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary<n id="3" /> brought Jesus<n id="4" /> up to Jerusalem<n id="5" /> to present him to the Lord

But some from the religious party of the Pharisees<n id="1" /> who had believed stood up and said, &#8220;It is necessary<n id="2" /> to circumcise the Gentiles<n id="3" /> and to order them to observe<n id="4" /> the law of Moses.&#8221;p>

Paul said in his defense,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I have committed no offense<n id="2" /> against the Jewish law<n id="3" /> or against the temple or against Caesar.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">For circumcision<n id="1" /> has its value if you practice the law, but<n id="2" /> if you break the law,<n id="3" /> your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Or do you not know, brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person<n id="2" /> as long as he lives?

But when the appropriate time<n id="1" /> had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.<n id="1" />

For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness,<n id="1" /> but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.p>

<p class="bodytext">When he says above, &#8220;<b><i>Sacrifices and offeringsi>b> and <b><i>whole burnt offerings and sin-offeringsi>b> <b><i>you did not desire nor did you take delighti>b> in them&#8221;<n id="1" /> (which are offered according to the law),