In the books of the Jewish Law, there is a very terrible passage, recording the curse put on all those who break the Law (Deuteronomy 27:14-26). A person who was cursed was separated from God. Paul takes quotations from the Jewish Scriptures (Deuteronomy 27:26, Leviticus 18:5) to show that the Law was powerless to overcome the power of sin or to bring a person back to God. The Law could only show what the nature of sin was. The moral impossibility of anyone never disobeying the Law meant that, according to Deuteronomy 27:26, every Jew was actually under a curse. No Jew had lived who had obeyed every command of the Law at all times. Paul quotes from Habakkuk 2:4 to show that the Jewish Scriptures had made it clear that the righteous are those who have faith and are faithful to God, reflecting Genesis 15 :6. In 3: 13, Paul shows that Jesus Christ voluntarily became cursed according to the Law (Deuteronomy 21:23) to destroy the power of sin. 'Christ did this in order that the blessing which God promised to Abraham might be given to the Gentiles by means of Jesus Christ, so that through faith we might receive the Spirit promised by God.'