Wherefore if thou wilt define truly what it is to do the law, it is nothing else but to believe in Jesus Christ, and when the Holy Ghost is received through faith in Christ to work those things which are commanded in the law: and otherwise we are not able to perform the law. For the Scriptures saith there is no blessing without the promise; no, not in the law.
The apples make not the tree, but the tree maketh the apples. So faith first maketh the person who afterwards bringeth forth works. Therefore to do the law without faith, is to make the apples of wood and earth, without the tree, which is not to make apples, but is a mere fantasy. So, if the tree be made,
that is to say, the person or doer, which is made through faith in Christ, works will follow.
Martin Luther, Kregel, Galatians 3:10, p. 147.
KJV Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
