The good news reveals how God makes people right with himself. This happens by faith from beginning to end, just as it is written, “The one who is right with God will live by faith.”
We know that no one who relies on the law is made right with God, because “the one who is right with God will live by faith.”
And, “The one who’s right with God will live by faith. But I’m not pleased with the one who pulls back.”
I want to belong to him, and I want to be right with God based not on my obedience to the law but on my faith in Christ.
What should we say then? The Gentiles did not look for a way to be right with God, but they found it by having faith.
But now we know we can be made right with God apart from the law, even though the Law and the Prophets are actually witnesses about this.
What if some Jews weren’t faithful? Will that keep God from being faithful?
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever who does not obey the Son will not see life, because God’s anger remains on them.
All who believe are made right with God through faith in Jesus Christ. It’s not any different for Jews than for Gentiles.
They didn’t know how God makes people right with himself, so they tried to get right with God in their own way. They didn’t realize that
If the law that condemns people to death had glory, how much more glorious will the work of the Spirit be! It makes people right with God.
He never sinned, but God made him become sin for us, so that in him we could be made right with God.