7. So you should know that the true children of Abraham are those who have faith.
8. The Scriptures told what would happen in the future. They said that God would make the non-Jewish people right through their faith. This Good News was told to Abraham beforehand, as the Scripture says: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
9. Abraham believed this, and because he believed, he was blessed. It is the same today. All who believe today are blessed just as Abraham was blessed.
10. But those who depend on following the law to make them right are under a curse because the Scriptures say, “Anyone will be cursed who does not always obey what is written in the Book of the Law!”
11. So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by the law. The Scriptures say, “He who is right with God by faith will live.”
12. The law does not use faith. It says, “A person who does these things will live forever because of them.”