²⁶ And he said unto him, `In the law what hath been written? how dost thou read?'

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

¹⁹ And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

¹⁴ for if they who are of law `are' heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;

¹⁵ for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither `is' transgression.

¹⁶ Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,

⁵ for Moses doth describe the righteousness that `is' of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,'

²¹ the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

²² but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

¹² and the law is not by faith, but -- `The man who did them shall live in them.'

¹³ Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'