Galatians 2:15-21

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Jews, Like Gentiles, are Saved by Faith

¹⁵ We ourselves are Jews by birth, and not gentile sinners, ¹⁶ yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires,^[a] but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus^[b] the Messiah.^[c] We, too, have believed in the Messiah^[d] Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of^[e] the Messiah^[f] and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being^[g] will be justified by doing what the Law requires. ¹⁷ Now if we, while trying to be justified by the Messiah,^[h] have been found to be sinners, does that mean that the Messiah^[i] is serving the interests of sin? Of course not! ¹⁸ For if I rebuild something that I tore down, I demonstrate that I am a wrongdoer. ¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with the Messiah.^{[j] 20} I no longer live, but the Messiah^[k] lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God,^[l] who loved me and gave himself for me. ²¹ I do not misapply God’s grace, for if righteousness comes about by doing what the Law requires, then the Messiah^[m] died for nothing.