For no one is put right in God's sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make us know that we have sinned.

God puts people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all:

But those who depend on faith, not on deeds, and who believe in the God who declares the guilty to be innocent, it is this faith that God takes into account in order to put them right with himself.

Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

What the Law could not do, because human nature was weak, God did. He condemned sin in human nature by sending his own Son, who came with a nature like our sinful nature, to do away with sin.

As Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the desert, in the same way the Son of Man must be lifted up,

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God's only Son.

"I am telling you the truth: those who hear my words and believe in him who sent me have eternal life. They will not be judged, but have already passed from death to life.

For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day."

All of you, my fellow Israelites, are to know for sure that it is through Jesus that the message about forgiveness of sins is preached to you; you are to know that everyone who believes in him is set free from all the sins from which the Law of Moses could not set you free.

(SEE 13:38)

Some of you were like that. But you have been purified from sin; you have been dedicated to God; you have been put right with God by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Yet we know that a person is put right with God only through faith in Jesus Christ, never by doing what the Law requires. We, too, have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be put right with God through our faith in Christ, and not by doing what the Law requires. For no one is put right with God by doing what the Law requires.

The scripture predicted that God would put the Gentiles right with himself through faith. And so the scripture announced the Good News to Abraham: "Through you God will bless all people."

Now, it is clear that no one is put right with God by means of the Law, because the scripture says, "Only the person who is put right with God through faith shall live."

But by becoming a curse for us Christ has redeemed us from the curse that the Law brings; for the scripture says, "Anyone who is hanged on a tree is under God's curse."

and be completely united with him. I no longer have a righteousness of my own, the kind that is gained by obeying the Law. I now have the righteousness that is given through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God and is based on faith.

so that by his grace we might be put right with God and come into possession of the eternal life we hope for.