²⁴ with the result that the Law has become our tutor and our disciplinarian to guide us to Christ, so that we may be ^[a]justified [that is, declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing with God] by faith.

¹⁷ So faith comes from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ.

⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word [the message, the basis] of faith which we preach—^(A)