For all those who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue to do all things that are written in the scroll of the law.”
But now we have been released from the law, having died to what hindered us, in order to serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
Therefore, my siblings, y’all also were made to die to the law through the body of Christ, so that y’all would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for God.
But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a command of yours. But you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.