Fifty Inconveniences that arise out of Man’s Self-Righteousness coming from works, extracted from Paul’s Letter to the Galatians and compiled by Martin Luther
Chapter 1
1. To bring people from the calling of grace.
2. To received another gospel.
3. To trouble the minds of the faithful.
4. To pervert the Gospel of Christ.
5. To be accursed.
6. To obey human traditions.
7. To please man.
8. Not to be a servant of Christ.
9. To build upon men, and not upon God.
10. That the most excellent righteousness of the law is nothing.
11. To destroy the church of God.
Chapter 2
12. To teach people to be justified by works is to teach them to be justified by impossibility
13. To make the righteous in Christ into sinners.
14. To make Christ a minister of sin.
15. To build up sin again, when it is destroyed.
16. To be made a transgressor.
17. To reject the grace of God.
18. To judge that Christ died in vain.
Chapter 3
19. To become foolish Galatians.
20. To be bewitched.
21. Not to listen to the truth.
22. To crucify Christ again.
23. To Hold that the Spirit is received by works.
24. To forsake the Spirit and to end in the flesh.
25. To be under the curse.
26. To set the human testament above that of God.
27. To make sin abound.
28. To be shut under sin.
29. To serve beggarly ceremonies.
Chapter 4
30. That the Gospel is preached in vain.
31. That everything the faithful do or permit is in vain.
32. To be made a servant and the son of the bondwoman.
33. To be cast out of the inheritance, together with the son of the bondwoman.
34. That Christ brings no benefit.
35. That we are debtors to fulfill the whole law.
Chapter 5
36. To be separate from Christ.
37. To fall from grace.
38. To be hindered from the good course of well-doing.
39. That being convinced of the doctrine of works does not come from God.
40. To have the leaven of corruption.
41. To have judgment remain for anyone who teaches this doctrine.
42. To bite and consume one another.
43. That this doctrine is reckoned among the works of the flesh.
Chapter 6
44. To think yourself to be something when you are nothing.
45. To glory in others rather than in God.
46. Unspiritually to please people who are not spiritually minded.
47. To hate being persecuted because of the cross.
48. Not to keep the law itself.
49. To glory in the master and teacher of unspiritual things.
50. That nothing helps at all, and whatever a person does is in vain.
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