# What St Paul Really Said  ## Metadata - Author: [[Tom Wright]] - Full Title: What St Paul Really Said - Category: #books ## Highlights - The Jew keeps the law out of gratitude, as the proper response to grace – not, in other words, in order to get into the covenant people, but to stay in. Being ‘in’ in the first place was God’s gift. This scheme Sanders famously labelled as ‘covenantal nomism’ (from the Greek nomos, law). Keeping the Jewish law was the human response to God’s covenantal initiative. ([Location 253](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006CO6W8M&location=253))