law” so that all who identify with him are freed from its circumscribing limitations—its requirement to “remain within” the boundaries marked out by its practices. The force of Paul’s argument in 3:10, then, is that the influencers’ teaching is internally incoherent. Because of their Christian confession, they must embrace gentiles as their siblings in God’s new family. But they claim that gentiles cannot be saved unless they judaize through circumcision. Paul shows that their attempts to uphold