Galatians 2:15-21

New Matthew Bible

¹⁵ We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, ¹⁶ know that a person is not justified by the deeds of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. And therefore we have believed on Jesus Christ, so that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the deeds of the law – because no flesh can be justified by the deeds of the law.

¹⁷ If then, while we seek to be made righteous by Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid. ¹⁸ For if I build again that which I destroyed, then I make myself a trespasser. ¹⁹ But I through the law am dead to the law, so that I may live unto God. ²⁰ I am crucified with Christ. I live indeed – yet now not I, but Christ lives in me. For the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ²¹ I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ died in vain.