²⁸ For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.^(A)

¹⁶ know that a person is not justified by the works of the law,^(A) but by faith in Jesus Christ.^(B) So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in^[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.^(C)

²³ And this is his command: to believe^(A) in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,^(B) and to love one another as he commanded us.^(C)

²² You see that his faith and his actions were working together,^(A) and his faith was made complete by what he did.^(B)