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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: justification. But if he has no need of works, neither has he
need of the law; and if he has no need of the law, he is
certainly free from the law, and the saying is true, "The law is
not made for a righteous man" (1 Tim. i. 9). This is that
Christian liberty, our faith, the effect of which is, not that we
should be careless or lead a bad life, but that no one should
need the law or works for justification and salvation.
Let us consider this as the first virtue of faith; and let us
look also to the second. This also is an office of faith: that it
honours with the utmost veneration and the highest reputation Him
in whom it believes, inasmuch as it holds Him to be truthful and
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