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The Law and Promise

For if the inheritance [of the promise depends on observing] the Law [as these false teachers would like you to believe], it no longer [depends] on the promise; however, God

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Redeemed from the curse of the law

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, [ “Cursed] [is] [ everyone who hangs on a tree”]),

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The righteous live by faith

Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” Galatians 3:11(NIV) The righteous aren’t those who try and strive to

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The true sons of Abraham

Know and understand that it is [really] the people [who live] by faith who are [the true] sons of Abraham. Galatians 3:7(AMPC) When the Jews told Jesus that they were

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Trust in Christ, not the law

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want

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Do not repudiate God’s Grace.

I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of

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Crucified with Christ

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live

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Justified by Faith

We [who are] Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus

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Be straight forward about the Gospel

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before [them] all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the

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God shows no partiality

But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man)—they, I say, who were respected imparted

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