1What good is it to be a Jew? What good is it to be circumcised?
2It is good in a lot of ways! First of all, God's messages were spoken to the Jews.
3It is true that some of them did not believe the message. But does this mean that God cannot be trusted, just because they did not have faith?
4 than the Gentiles? No, it doesn't! Jews, as well as Gentiles, are ruled by sin, just as I have said.
10 tell how we become acceptable, and it isn't by obeying the Law of Moses.
22Ga 2.16. God treats everyone alike. He accepts people only because they have faith in Jesus Christ.
23All of us have sinned and fallen short of God's glory.
24But God treats us much better than we deserve, and because of Christ Jesus, he freely accepts us and sets us free from our sins.
25-264 Macc 17.21. God sent Christ to be our sacrifice. Christ offered his life's blood, so by faith in him we could come to God. And God did this to show that in the past he was right to be patient and forgive sinners. This also shows that God is right when he accepts people who have faith in Jesus.
27What is left for us to brag about? Not a thing! Is it because we obeyed some law? No! It is because of faith.
28We see that people are acceptable to God because they have faith, and not because they obey the Law.
29Does God belong only to the Jews? Isn't he also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, he is!
30Dt 6.4; Ga 3.20. There is only one God, and he accepts Gentiles as well as Jews, simply because of their faith.
31Do we destroy the Law by our faith? Not at all! We make it even more powerful.
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