and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Ye are severed from Christ, ye would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.
Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need (was there) that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?