Galatians 2:12-21 ▼

12 for till certain Jews came thither from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, for fear of those, who were for circumcision:

13 and the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas himself was carried away with their hypocrisy.

14 but when I saw, they conformed not their conduct to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all: if you being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not according to that of the Jews, why do you constrain the Gentiles to judaize?

15 We are Jews by birth, and not of the sinful race of the Gentiles,

16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification.

17 Now if it be a sin to seek for justification by Christ, then is Christ the minister of sin, which cannot be.

18 on the contrary, if I re-establish what I have demolish'd, I show myself a prevaricator.

19 for by one law, I am dead to the other law, that I might live unto God:

20 I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if justification be by the law, Christ died to no purpose.