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katapi HOME Galatians 2:15-21 - Jews, like Gentiles, are Saved by Faith  Ga.2.15-212 15 We ourselves are Jews by birth, not Gentiles and sinners. 2 16 [ Ps.143.2. ] But we know that no man is ever justified by doing what the law demands, but only through faith in Christ Jesus; so we too have put our faith in Jesus Christ, in order that we might be justified through this faith, and not through deeds dictated by law; for by such deeds, Scripture says, no mortal man shall be justified.
2 17 If now, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves no less than the Gentiles turn out to be sinners against the law, does that mean that Christ is an is abettor of sin? No, never! 2 18 No, if I start building up again a system which I have pulled down, then it is that I show myself up as a transgressor of the law. 2 19 For through the law I died to law to live for God. 2 20 I have been crucified with Christ: the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and sacrificed himself for me. 2 21 I will not nullify the grace of God; if righteousness comes by law, then Christ died for nothing.