Galatians 2:12-21 ▼

12 For before certain ones came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles. But when they came, he was drawing back and was separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

13 And also the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

14 But when I saw that they are not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before all, “If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how do you compel the Gentiles to Judaize?”

15 We by nature Jews and not “sinners of the Gentiles,”

16 are knowing now that a man is not justified by works of the law, except through faith from Jesus Christ. We also believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith from Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law not any flesh will be justified.

17 But if, seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? Never may it be!

18 For if I build again these things that I tore down, I prove myself a transgressor.

19 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And that which I now live in the flesh, I live in faith of the Son of God, the One having loved me and having given up Himself for me.

21 I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing.