Paul says that the way to God is not through membership in any nation, and not through any rule which requires a mark upon the body. (ie circumcision) But by the faith which takes God at His word and makes everything dependent, not on man's achievement, but solely upon God's grace.
The basic thought of the Jews was that a man had to earn God's favour. The new Christian church believed solely on God's grace. God's grace is the love that God freely gives to us. We don't do anything to earn it.
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