Galatians 2:15-21 - Justified By Faith In Christ

¹⁵ You and I, though we are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, ¹⁶ know that it is not through obedience to Law that a man can be declared free from guilt, but only through faith in Jesus Christ. We have therefore believed in Christ Jesus, for the purpose of being declared free from guilt, through faith in Christ and not through obedience to Law. For through obedience to Law no human being shall be declared free from guilt. ¹⁷ But if while we are seeking in Christ acquittal from guilt we ourselves are convicted of sin, Christ then encourages us to sin! No, indeed. ¹⁸ Why, if I am now rebuilding that structure of sin which I had demolished, I am thereby constituting myself a transgressor; ¹⁹ for it is by the Law that I have died to the Law, in order that I may live to God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf. ²¹ I do not nullify the grace of God; for if acquittal from guilt is obtainable through the Law, then Christ has died in vain."