字句律法是神见证，说明神是如何的神，如何圣洁，如何公义，如何光明，如何慈仁。
The law of letters God defines,
It is His testimony true;
It shows how loving, holy, just,
Is God, with whom we have to do.

神的律法是要我们照神所是行事为人，使神可来称义、悦纳，并按公义赐以福分。
According to His nature shown
God's law requires that we must live,
That He our souls may justify
And unto us His blessing give.

律法不能赐人生命，任何能力不能供应，只向我们有所要求，显明我们软弱无能。
The law can never give us life,
Nor any strength to us supply,
But doth its full demands exact
And all our weakness show thereby.

律法并非神的心愿，乃为显明罪过而添，给人干犯，向人证明人是满了罪恶过犯。
It was not for God's final plan,
But of man's sin was introduced,
That man by breaking it might know
Himself, his sin to him adduced.

律法塞住众人之口，并将众人圈在罪中；为将我们带到基督，在祂里面蒙神恩宠。
'Tis by the law all mouths are stopped
And all are shut up under sin;
It brings us to the Christ of God
That God may bless us all in Him.

律法乃是基督小影，基督是神实际见证，丰满表明神是如何圣洁、公义、仁爱、光明。
The law is but a type of Christ,
Who God's full testimony is,
Who fully has expressed His love,
His holiness and righteousness.

乃是神的这位基督，供应我们以神生命，好使律法所有要求，都在我们得以完成。
'Tis Christ, God's testimony real,
Who doth with life divine supply,
That with the law's demands we may
Be more than able to comply.

基督，神这活的见证，使我有分大能生命；借祂我向律法已死，在祂灵中得以成圣。
God's living testimony, He;
By whom God's potent life we share;
Thru Him we're dead unto the law,
And in His Spirit fruit we bear.