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11 We know that the Law can not cause anyone to become right with God. That is clear because the Bible says, ‘The person that God has accepted as right will live because they trust him.’[a]

12 But the Law does not tell people to trust God. It tells people about all the things that they must do. The Bible says, ‘The person who obeys all the rules in God's Law completely will live’. 13 So God's Law shows that it is right for God to punish us. But Christ took that punishment away from us, because God punished him instead of us. It says in the Bible: ‘When people hang someone on a tree to kill him, it shows that God has cursed that person.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:11 These words from Habakkuk 2:4 are also in Romans 1:17 and Hebrews 10:38. It is very important to trust God. See also Hebrews 11:6.
  2. 3:13 See Deuteronomy 21:23.