Galatians 3:24 这样，律法是我们训蒙的师傅，引我们到基督那里，使我们因信称义。

3:24 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 这样，律法是我们训蒙的师傅，引我们到基督那里，使我们因信称义。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 这样，律法是我们的启蒙教师，直到基督来了，好使我们因信称义。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 这样，律法是我们的启蒙教师，直到基督来了，好使我们因信称义。
当代译本 - 因此，律法是我们的监护人，负责引领我们归向基督，使我们可以因信被称为义人。
圣经新译本 - 这样，律法成了我们的启蒙教师，领我们到基督那里，使我们可以因信称义。
中文标准译本 - 这样，律法一向是我们的导师，直到基督，好使我们能因信称义。
现代标点和合本 - 这样，律法是我们训蒙的师傅，引我们到基督那里，使我们因信称义。
和合本（拼音版） - 这样，律法是我们训蒙的师傅，引我们到基督那里，使我们因信称义。
New International Version - So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.
New International Reader's Version - So the law was put in charge of us until Christ came. He came so that we might be made right with God by believing in Christ.
English Standard Version - So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
New Living Translation - Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith.
Christian Standard Bible - The law, then, was our guardian until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith.
New American Standard Bible - Therefore the Law has become our guardian to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
New King James Version - Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Amplified Bible - with the result that the Law has become our tutor and our disciplinarian to guide us to Christ, so that we may be justified [that is, declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing with God] by faith.
American Standard Version - So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
King James Version - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
New English Translation - Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.
World English Bible - So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
新標點和合本 - 這樣，律法是我們訓蒙的師傅，引我們到基督那裏，使我們因信稱義。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 這樣，律法是我們的啟蒙教師，直到基督來了，好使我們因信稱義。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 這樣，律法是我們的啟蒙教師，直到基督來了，好使我們因信稱義。
當代譯本 - 因此，律法是我們的監護人，負責引領我們歸向基督，使我們可以因信被稱為義人。
聖經新譯本 - 這樣，律法成了我們的啟蒙教師，領我們到基督那裡，使我們可以因信稱義。
呂振中譯本 - 這樣，律法就做了我們的童年導師、等候基督來到，使我們由於信得稱為義。
中文標準譯本 - 這樣，律法一向是我們的導師，直到基督，好使我們能因信稱義。
現代標點和合本 - 這樣，律法是我們訓蒙的師傅，引我們到基督那裡，使我們因信稱義。
文理和合譯本 - 如是、律為我儕之塾師引就基督、俾由信而見義、
文理委辦譯本 - 法為啟蒙之師、引我至基督、使以信稱義、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 如是、律法為我啟蒙之師、引我就基督、使由信稱義、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 是故律法實為吾人之蒙師、所以引導吾人、達於基督、俾因信德而成義也。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Así que la ley vino a ser nuestro guía encargado de conducirnos a Cristo, para que fuéramos justificados por la fe.
현대인의 성경 - 그래서 율법은 우리를 그리스도에게로 인도하는 가정교사 구실을 하여 우리가 믿음으로 의롭다는 인정을 받도록 하였습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Итак, Закон воспитывал нас до прихода Христа , чтобы, когда Он придет, получить оправдание по вере.
Восточный перевод - Итак, Закон воспитывал нас до прихода Масиха , чтобы, когда Он придёт, получить оправдание по вере.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Итак, Закон воспитывал нас до прихода аль-Масиха , чтобы, когда Он придёт, получить оправдание по вере.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Итак, Закон воспитывал нас до прихода Масеха , чтобы, когда Он придёт, получить оправдание по вере.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ainsi, la Loi a été comme un gardien chargé de nous conduire à Christ pour que nous soyons déclarés justes devant Dieu par la foi.
リビングバイブル - 言い換えると律法は、キリストが来られ、私たちが信仰によって神の前での正しい身分を与えられるまでの間の、私たちの教育係だったのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - ὥστε ὁ νόμος παιδαγωγὸς ἡμῶν γέγονεν εἰς Χριστόν, ἵνα ἐκ πίστεως δικαιωθῶμεν·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ὥστε ὁ νόμος, παιδαγωγὸς ἡμῶν γέγονεν εἰς Χριστόν, ἵνα ἐκ πίστεως δικαιωθῶμεν.
Nova Versão Internacional - Assim, a Lei foi o nosso tutor até Cristo, para que fôssemos justificados pela fé.
Hoffnung für alle - Bis dahin hatte das Gesetz für uns die Aufgabe eines strengen Erziehers. Seit Christus aber finden wir durch den Glauben Gottes Anerkennung und sind dem Gesetz, diesem strengen Erzieher, nicht mehr unterstellt.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Luật pháp Môi-se đóng vai người giám hộ canh giữ chúng ta trong khi chờ đợi Chúa Cứu Thế thực hiện chương trình cứu rỗi bởi đức tin.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ดังนั้นบทบัญญัติได้รับมอบหมายหน้าที่ให้นำเรามาถึงพระคริสต์ เพื่อเราจะได้ถูกนับเป็นผู้ชอบธรรมโดยความเชื่อ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ดังนั้นกฎบัญญัติจึงได้คอยควบคุมจนกระทั่งพระคริสต์มา เพื่อว่าเราจะพ้นผิดได้โดยความเชื่อ

交叉引用

Romans 3:21 - But in our time something new has been added. What Moses and the prophets witnessed to all those years has happened. The God-setting-things-right that we read about has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. For there is no difference between us and them in this. Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3:25 - But now you have arrived at your destination: By faith in Christ you are in direct relationship with God. Your baptism in Christ was not just washing you up for a fresh start. It also involved dressing you in an adult faith wardrobe—Christ’s life, the fulfillment of God’s original promise.
Hebrews 9:11 - But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven’s “tent”—the true Holy Place—once and for all. He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all. If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out. Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.
Hebrews 9:16 - Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus’ death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and his people in this new way.
Romans 7:7 - But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.” That’s certainly not true. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function. Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork. Apart from the succinct, surgical command, “You shall not covet,” I could have dressed covetousness up to look like a virtue and ruined my life with it.
Romans 7:8 - Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
Galatians 2:19 - What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.
Hebrews 10:1 - The old plan was only a hint of the good things in the new plan. Since that old “law plan” wasn’t complete in itself, it couldn’t complete those who followed it. No matter how many sacrifices were offered year after year, they never added up to a complete solution. If they had, the worshipers would have gone blissfully on their way, no longer dragged down by their sins. But instead of removing awareness of sin, when those animal sacrifices were repeated over and over they actually heightened awareness and guilt. The plain fact is that bull and goat blood can’t get rid of sin. That is what is meant by this prophecy, put in the mouth of Christ: You don’t want sacrifices and offerings year after year; you’ve prepared a body for me for a sacrifice. It’s not fragrance and smoke from the altar that whet your appetite. So I said, “I’m here to do it your way, O God, the way it’s described in your Book.” When he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings,” he was referring to practices according to the old plan. When he added, “I’m here to do it your way,” he set aside the first in order to enact the new plan—God’s way—by which we are made fit for God by the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus.
Hebrews 10:11 - Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem. As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in. It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process. The Holy Spirit confirms this: This new plan I’m making with Israel isn’t going to be written on paper, isn’t going to be chiseled in stone; This time “I’m writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts.” He concludes, I’ll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins. Once sins are taken care of for good, there’s no longer any need to offer sacrifices for them.
Matthew 5:17 - “Don’t suppose for a minute that I have come to demolish the Scriptures—either God’s Law or the Prophets. I’m not here to demolish but to complete. I am going to put it all together, pull it all together in a vast panorama. God’s Law is more real and lasting than the stars in the sky and the ground at your feet. Long after stars burn out and earth wears out, God’s Law will be alive and working.
Romans 7:24 - I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question?
Romans 7:25 - The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.
Romans 10:4 - The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 这样，律法是我们训蒙的师傅，引我们到基督那里，使我们因信称义。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 这样，律法是我们的启蒙教师，直到基督来了，好使我们因信称义。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 这样，律法是我们的启蒙教师，直到基督来了，好使我们因信称义。
当代译本 - 因此，律法是我们的监护人，负责引领我们归向基督，使我们可以因信被称为义人。
圣经新译本 - 这样，律法成了我们的启蒙教师，领我们到基督那里，使我们可以因信称义。
中文标准译本 - 这样，律法一向是我们的导师，直到基督，好使我们能因信称义。
现代标点和合本 - 这样，律法是我们训蒙的师傅，引我们到基督那里，使我们因信称义。
和合本（拼音版） - 这样，律法是我们训蒙的师傅，引我们到基督那里，使我们因信称义。
New International Version - So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.
New International Reader's Version - So the law was put in charge of us until Christ came. He came so that we might be made right with God by believing in Christ.
English Standard Version - So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
New Living Translation - Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith.
Christian Standard Bible - The law, then, was our guardian until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith.
New American Standard Bible - Therefore the Law has become our guardian to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
New King James Version - Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Amplified Bible - with the result that the Law has become our tutor and our disciplinarian to guide us to Christ, so that we may be justified [that is, declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing with God] by faith.
American Standard Version - So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
King James Version - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
New English Translation - Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.
World English Bible - So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
新標點和合本 - 這樣，律法是我們訓蒙的師傅，引我們到基督那裏，使我們因信稱義。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 這樣，律法是我們的啟蒙教師，直到基督來了，好使我們因信稱義。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 這樣，律法是我們的啟蒙教師，直到基督來了，好使我們因信稱義。
當代譯本 - 因此，律法是我們的監護人，負責引領我們歸向基督，使我們可以因信被稱為義人。
聖經新譯本 - 這樣，律法成了我們的啟蒙教師，領我們到基督那裡，使我們可以因信稱義。
呂振中譯本 - 這樣，律法就做了我們的童年導師、等候基督來到，使我們由於信得稱為義。
中文標準譯本 - 這樣，律法一向是我們的導師，直到基督，好使我們能因信稱義。
現代標點和合本 - 這樣，律法是我們訓蒙的師傅，引我們到基督那裡，使我們因信稱義。
文理和合譯本 - 如是、律為我儕之塾師引就基督、俾由信而見義、
文理委辦譯本 - 法為啟蒙之師、引我至基督、使以信稱義、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 如是、律法為我啟蒙之師、引我就基督、使由信稱義、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 是故律法實為吾人之蒙師、所以引導吾人、達於基督、俾因信德而成義也。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Así que la ley vino a ser nuestro guía encargado de conducirnos a Cristo, para que fuéramos justificados por la fe.
현대인의 성경 - 그래서 율법은 우리를 그리스도에게로 인도하는 가정교사 구실을 하여 우리가 믿음으로 의롭다는 인정을 받도록 하였습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Итак, Закон воспитывал нас до прихода Христа , чтобы, когда Он придет, получить оправдание по вере.
Восточный перевод - Итак, Закон воспитывал нас до прихода Масиха , чтобы, когда Он придёт, получить оправдание по вере.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Итак, Закон воспитывал нас до прихода аль-Масиха , чтобы, когда Он придёт, получить оправдание по вере.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Итак, Закон воспитывал нас до прихода Масеха , чтобы, когда Он придёт, получить оправдание по вере.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ainsi, la Loi a été comme un gardien chargé de nous conduire à Christ pour que nous soyons déclarés justes devant Dieu par la foi.
リビングバイブル - 言い換えると律法は、キリストが来られ、私たちが信仰によって神の前での正しい身分を与えられるまでの間の、私たちの教育係だったのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - ὥστε ὁ νόμος παιδαγωγὸς ἡμῶν γέγονεν εἰς Χριστόν, ἵνα ἐκ πίστεως δικαιωθῶμεν·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ὥστε ὁ νόμος, παιδαγωγὸς ἡμῶν γέγονεν εἰς Χριστόν, ἵνα ἐκ πίστεως δικαιωθῶμεν.
Nova Versão Internacional - Assim, a Lei foi o nosso tutor até Cristo, para que fôssemos justificados pela fé.
Hoffnung für alle - Bis dahin hatte das Gesetz für uns die Aufgabe eines strengen Erziehers. Seit Christus aber finden wir durch den Glauben Gottes Anerkennung und sind dem Gesetz, diesem strengen Erzieher, nicht mehr unterstellt.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Luật pháp Môi-se đóng vai người giám hộ canh giữ chúng ta trong khi chờ đợi Chúa Cứu Thế thực hiện chương trình cứu rỗi bởi đức tin.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ดังนั้นบทบัญญัติได้รับมอบหมายหน้าที่ให้นำเรามาถึงพระคริสต์ เพื่อเราจะได้ถูกนับเป็นผู้ชอบธรรมโดยความเชื่อ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ดังนั้นกฎบัญญัติจึงได้คอยควบคุมจนกระทั่งพระคริสต์มา เพื่อว่าเราจะพ้นผิดได้โดยความเชื่อ

Romans 3:21 - But in our time something new has been added. What Moses and the prophets witnessed to all those years has happened. The God-setting-things-right that we read about has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. For there is no difference between us and them in this. Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3:25 - But now you have arrived at your destination: By faith in Christ you are in direct relationship with God. Your baptism in Christ was not just washing you up for a fresh start. It also involved dressing you in an adult faith wardrobe—Christ’s life, the fulfillment of God’s original promise.
Hebrews 9:11 - But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven’s “tent”—the true Holy Place—once and for all. He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all. If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out. Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.
Hebrews 9:16 - Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus’ death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and his people in this new way.
Romans 7:7 - But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.” That’s certainly not true. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function. Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork. Apart from the succinct, surgical command, “You shall not covet,” I could have dressed covetousness up to look like a virtue and ruined my life with it.
Romans 7:8 - Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
Galatians 2:19 - What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.
Hebrews 10:1 - The old plan was only a hint of the good things in the new plan. Since that old “law plan” wasn’t complete in itself, it couldn’t complete those who followed it. No matter how many sacrifices were offered year after year, they never added up to a complete solution. If they had, the worshipers would have gone blissfully on their way, no longer dragged down by their sins. But instead of removing awareness of sin, when those animal sacrifices were repeated over and over they actually heightened awareness and guilt. The plain fact is that bull and goat blood can’t get rid of sin. That is what is meant by this prophecy, put in the mouth of Christ: You don’t want sacrifices and offerings year after year; you’ve prepared a body for me for a sacrifice. It’s not fragrance and smoke from the altar that whet your appetite. So I said, “I’m here to do it your way, O God, the way it’s described in your Book.” When he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings,” he was referring to practices according to the old plan. When he added, “I’m here to do it your way,” he set aside the first in order to enact the new plan—God’s way—by which we are made fit for God by the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus.
Hebrews 10:11 - Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem. As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in. It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process. The Holy Spirit confirms this: This new plan I’m making with Israel isn’t going to be written on paper, isn’t going to be chiseled in stone; This time “I’m writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts.” He concludes, I’ll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins. Once sins are taken care of for good, there’s no longer any need to offer sacrifices for them.
Matthew 5:17 - “Don’t suppose for a minute that I have come to demolish the Scriptures—either God’s Law or the Prophets. I’m not here to demolish but to complete. I am going to put it all together, pull it all together in a vast panorama. God’s Law is more real and lasting than the stars in the sky and the ground at your feet. Long after stars burn out and earth wears out, God’s Law will be alive and working.
Romans 7:24 - I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question?
Romans 7:25 - The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.
Romans 10:4 - The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”