If I start to rebuild the system of Law that I tore down, then I show myself to be someone who breaks the Law.

The LORD frustrates the purposes of the nations; he keeps them from carrying out their plans.

And Jesus continued, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.

In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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.

Does this mean that the Law is against God's promises? No, not at all! For if human beings had received a law that could bring life, then everyone could be put right with God by obeying it.

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, it means that Christ is of no use to you at all.

Those of you who try to be put right with God by obeying the Law have cut yourselves off from Christ. You are outside God's grace.

They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.

His choice is based on his grace, not on what they have done. For if God's choice were based on what people do, then his grace would not be real grace.

It was on the basis of the levitical priesthood that the Law was given to the people of Israel. Now, if the work of the levitical priests had been perfect, there would have been no need for a different kind of priest to appear, one who is in the priestly order of Melchizedek, not of Aaron.

I said, "I have worked, but how hopeless it is! I have used up my strength, but have accomplished nothing." Yet I can trust the LORD to defend my cause; he will reward me for what I do.

How can you say that you are wise and that you know my laws? Look, the laws have been changed by dishonest scribes.

That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it---unless it was for nothing that you believed.

and if Christ has not been raised from death, then we have nothing to preach and you have nothing to believe.

And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins.