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

¹⁵ We who are Jews by birth, and not sinful heathen, ¹⁶ but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright. ¹⁷ If through our efforts to be made upright through Christ, we have ourselves been proved as much "sinners" as the heathen, does that make Christ encourage sin? By no means. ¹⁸ I really convict myself of wrongdoing when I start to rebuild what I tore down. ¹⁹ For it is through the Law that I have become dead to the Law, so that I may live for God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. ²¹ I refuse to nullify the mercy of God. For if uprightness could be secured through law, then Christ died for nothing!