When we were in Adam, the law fulfilled its pedagogical role of pointing out sin and leading us to faith in Christ. When we responded to the preached promise by believing and confessing Christ, God brought us into relationship with him as his people. Now that we are in Christ, the law assumes its normative role of providing guidelines for a walk of obedience. Paul’s primary purpose for including this passage at this point in his letter was to contrast the gospel’s approach of righteousness by faith