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15 “We, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

16 “know that a man is not justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we, I say, have believed in Jesus Christ; that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law. Because, by the works of the Law, no flesh shall be justified.

17 “If then, while we seek to be made righteous by Christ, we ourselves are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin? May it never be!

18 “For if I build again the things that I have destroyed, I make myself a trespasser.

19 “For I, through the Law, am dead to the Law, that I might live to God.

20 “I am crucified with Christ, but I live; yet not I anymore, but Christ lives in me. And, in that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith in the Son of God, Who has loved me, and given Himself for me.

21 “I do not abrogate the grace of God. For if righteousness is by the Law, then Christ died for nothing.”

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