Portal:Covenant Press

“ Chapter 6 1 Brothers, even if a man may be overtaken in any trespass, you who [are] spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering yourself—lest you also may be tempted. 2 Bear the burdens of one another, and so fill up the law of the Christ, 3 for if anyone thinks [himself] to be something—being nothing—he deceives himself; 4 and let each one prove his own work, and then he will have the glorying in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to the other, 5 for each one will bear his own burden. ”

“ Having begun in the Spirit, do you now end in the flesh? 4 So many things you suffered in vain! If, indeed, even in vain. 5 He, therefore, who is supplying the Spirit to you and working mighty acts among you— [is it] by works of law or by the hearing of faith? 6 According as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness; 7 know, then, that those of faith—these are sons of Abraham, 8 and the Writing, having foreseen that God declares righteous the nations by faith, foretold the good news to Abraham: 9 "All the nations will be blessed in you" ”

“ For I testify to you, that if possible, having plucked out your eyes, you would have given [them] to me; 16 so have I become your enemy, being true to you? 17 They are zealous for you— [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that you may be zealous for them; 18 and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you ”

“ He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," which is Christ; 17 and this I say, a covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the Law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, does not set aside, to make void the promise, 18 for if the inheritance [is] by law, [it is] no longer by promise, but God granted [it] to Abraham through promise. 19 Why, then, the Law? ”