Galatians 2:12-21 ▼

12 For before certain men came from James, he did eat with the gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

13 And the rest of the Jews dissembled also with him; so that Barnabas too was carried away with their dissimulation.

14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all,---If thou, who art a Jew, livest sometimes after the manner of the gentiles, and not like the Jews, why dost thou now in a manner compel the gentiles to judaize?

15 We, who are Jews by birth, and not sinners of the gentiles,

16 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 Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

17 But if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin?

18 God forbid. And if I build again the same things which I demolished, I shew myself a transgressor: for I through the law am dead to the law,

19 that I might live unto God.

20 I am crucified with Christ; yet I live, though no longer I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave up himself for me.

21 I do not frustate the grace of God: for if righteousness be by the law, then Christ died in vain.