An Analogy from Marriage

7 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only during that person’s lifetime?

¹⁴ For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.^(A)

⁶ But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the written code.^(A)

³ Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?^(A)

10 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

The Allegory of Hagar and Sarah

²¹ Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law?

³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood.^(A)

⁸ Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law also say the same?

The Jews and the Law

¹⁷ But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God^{(A) 18} and know his will and determine what really matters because you are instructed in the law,