Galatians 3:21
Greek Text— Galatians 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
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Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.
“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,
So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.
who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.
though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.
May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.