²⁷ And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, ^(A)judge you who, even with your ^[a]written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?

^41 (A)The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and ^(B)condemn it, ^(C)because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. ^42 (D)The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.

⁶ who also made us sufficient as ^(A)ministers of ^(B)the new covenant, not ^(C)of the letter but of the ^[a]Spirit; for ^(D)the letter kills, ^(E)but the Spirit gives life.

⁴ that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who ^(A)do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

⁶ But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve ^(A)in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

Sin’s Advantage in the Law

⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, ^(B)I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, ^(C)“You shall not covet.” ⁸ But ^(D)sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For ^(E)apart from the law sin was dead.

²⁹ but he is a Jew ^(A)who is one inwardly; and ^(B)circumcision is that of the heart, ^(C)in the Spirit, not in the letter; ^(D)whose ^[a]praise is not from men but from God.

³ By faith we understand that ^(A)the ^[a]worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

¹⁴ For ^(A)all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: ^(B)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

¹⁰ Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore ^(A)love is the fulfillment of the law.