Paul, the Law, and the Covenant (Biblia.com)

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The now-familiar “new perspective” asserts that the “covenantal nomism” characteristic of second-temple Judaism softened the Mosaic law’s requirement of perfect obedience. Because of God’s gracious covenant with Israel, manifested in election and in the provision of atoning sacrifices, one could be righteous under the law despite occasional failures to obey the law perfectly. This view concludes...

rhetorically, if the opponents had never required strict obedience of the law or attempted as much.69 In his rhetoric Paul implies that the outsiders at Galatia are right: the law does, in fact, require strict, perfect obedience. The opponents are ironically implicated by their own teachings.70 The rhetorical force of Gal 6:13 must not be underestimated. If even those Jewish Christians who prize the law are unable to meet its demands, how much less would the Gentile Galatians be able to do it! If

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