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Galatians 2:15-17
New Testament for Everyone
Galatians 2:15-17
New Testament for Everyone
Justified by faith, not works of law
15 We are Jews by birth, not “Gentile sinners.” 16 But we know that a person is not declared “righteous” by works of the Jewish law, but through the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah.
That is why we too believed in the Messiah, Jesus: so that we might be declared “righteous” on the basis of the Messiah’s faithfulness, and not on the basis of works of the Jewish law. On that basis, you see, no creature will be declared “righteous.”
17 Well, then; if, in seeking to be declared “righteous” in the Messiah, we ourselves are found to be “sinners,” does that make the Messiah an agent of “sin”? Certainly not!
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