14 But when I saw that their (A)conduct was not in step with (B)the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas (C)before them all, “If you, though a Jew, (D)live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Justified by Faith

15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not (E)Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that (F)a person is not justified[a] by works of the law (G)but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, (H)because by works of the law no one will be justified.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:16 Or counted righteous (three times in verse 16); also verse 17

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