The Importance of Faith in Early Christianity

Think about this, from the context of a guy who has spent his life feeling unworthy and saying, I'm never going to be able to please God. And he reads verse 16 now in a language that he can understand, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. So it starts to reform, reshape his thinking of, wait a minute, have I been trying to please God the wrong way? Look at verse 17, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written, the just shall live by faith. It's this belief in this faith narrative that starts to come into his mind to say maybe Paul's got something to teach me. Maybe I