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and yet I am alive; or rather, not I; it is Christ that lives in me. True, I am living, here and now, this mortal life; but my real life is the faith I have in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2, 20)
And indeed, that the law cannot make a man acceptable to God is clear enough; It is faith, we are told, that brings life to the just man; (Galatians 3, 11)
whereas the law does not depend on faith; no, we are told it is the man who carries out the commandments that will find life in them.✻ (Galatians 3, 12)
Brethren, let me take an argument from common life. A valid legal disposition made by an ordinary human being cannot afterwards be set aside; no one can make fresh provisions in it.✻ (Galatians 3, 15)
Is the law an infringement, then, of God’s promises? That is not to be thought of. Doubtless, if a law had been given that was capable of imparting life to us, it would have been for the law to bring us justification. (Galatians 3, 21)
Since we live by the spirit, let the spirit be our rule of life; (Galatians 5, 25)
A man will reap what he sows; if nature is his seed-ground, nature will give him a perishable harvest, if his seed-ground is the spirit, it will give him a harvest of eternal life. (Galatians 6, 8)
We too, all of us, were once of their company; our life was bounded by natural appetites, and we did what corrupt nature or our own calculation would have us do, with God’s displeasure for our birthright, like other men. (Ephesians 2, 3)
Our sins had made dead men of us, and he, in giving life to Christ, gave life to us too; it is his grace that has saved you; (Ephesians 2, 5)
This, then, is my message to you; I call upon you in the Lord’s name not to live like the Gentiles, who make vain fancies their rule of life. (Ephesians 4, 17)
Their minds are clouded with darkness; the hardness of their hearts breeds in them an ignorance, which estranges them from the divine life; (Ephesians 4, 18)
that you must be quit, now, of the old self whose way of life you remember, the self that wasted its aim on false dreams.✻ (Ephesians 4, 22)
