<t /><p class="bodytext">Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?<n id="1" />

But I say, live<n id="1" /> by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.<n id="2" />

As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> I offer an example from everyday life:<n id="2" /> When a covenant<n id="3" /> has been ratified,<n id="4" /> even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.

<p class="bodytext">Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor,<n id="1" /> is no different from a slave, though he is the owner<n id="2" /> of everything.

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant.<n id="1" /> Scripture<n id="2" /> does not say, &#8220;and to the descendants<sc>,&#8221;sc><n id="3" /> referring to many, but &#8220;<b><i>and to your descendanti>b><sc>,&#8221;sc><n id="4" /> referring to one, who is Christ.

What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God,<n id="1" /> so as to invalidate the promise.

But what does the scripture say? &#8220;<i><b>Throw out the slave woman and her sonb>, <b>for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the sonb>i><sc>&#8221;sc><n id="1" /> of the free woman.