4. If you try to be made right with God through the law, your life with Christ is over—you have left God’s grace.
5. But we have the true hope that comes from being made right with God, and by the Spirit we wait eagerly for this hope.
6. When we are in Christ Jesus, it is not important if we are circumcised or not. The important thing is faith—the kind of faith that works through love.
7. You were running a good race. Who stopped you from following the true way?
8. This change did not come from the One who chose you.