27 Where, then, is the boasting? There is no place for it. Through what law? That of works?+ No indeed, but through the law of faith.

2 Go on carrying the burdens of one another,+ and in this way you will fulfill the law of the Christ.+

13 Furthermore, though you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcised state of your flesh, God made you alive together with him.+ He kindly forgave us all our trespasses+ 14 and erased* the handwritten document+ that consisted of decrees+ and was in opposition to us.+ He has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the torture stake.*+