"We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified."
"But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law that I that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain."
"O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to hear from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you no being made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain--- if indeed it was in vain?" (Galatians 2:15-21, 3:1-4)
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is NO VARIATION NOR SHADOW OF TURNING. Of His own will He brought us forth BY the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures."
(James 1:17,18)
"But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and CONTINUES in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he DOES." (James 1:25)
Christ died in vain for the Jew whose righteousness remains in the law, and for the Gentile who lives according to the wisdom of the world. Both philosophies set aside the grace of God, which preaches Christ crucified.
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