²¹ I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

²¹ Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law.

² Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

³ Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

⁴ You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

¹¹ Now if there was perfection 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?

¹⁶ yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through the faith of 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.

¹⁴ If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

⁶ 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.

² by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

³ For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

⁹ He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

⁴ But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.

¹⁸ For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

³¹ What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

¹⁷ If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.