you will lack them.” That which is impossible for you to achieve by fulfilling all the works of the law, which are great in number but nevertheless useless, is now done easily and quickly through faith. God the Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith has everything, while the one who lacks faith has nothing. Paul says in Romans 11:32: “For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.” The promises of God give what the commands demand, in order
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