Galatians 2:14-16

The Voice

¹⁴ their actions were not at all consistent with everything the good news of our Lord represents. So I approached Cephas and told him in plain sight of everyone: “If you, a Jew, have lived like the Gentile outsiders and not like the Jews, then how can you turn around and urge the outsiders to start living like Jews?” ¹⁵ We are natural-born Jews, not sinners from the godless nations. ¹⁶ But we know that no one is made right with God by meeting the demands of the law. It is only through the faithfulness of Jesus^[a] the Anointed that salvation is even possible. This is why we put faith in Jesus the Anointed: so we will be put right with God. It’s His faithfulness—not works prescribed by the law—that puts us in right standing with God because no one will be acquitted and declared “right” for doing what the law demands.