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

¹⁵ We ourselves are Jews by birth and not heathen sinners, and yet, ¹⁶ because we know that a man does not come into right standing with God by doing what the law commands, but by simple trust in Christ, we too have trusted in Christ Jesus, in order to come into right standing with God by simple trust in Christ and not by doing what the law commands, because by doing what the law commands no man can come into right standing with God. ¹⁷ Now if, in our efforts to come into right standing with God through union with Christ, we have proved ourselves to be sinners like the heathen themselves, does that make Christ a party to our sin? Of course not. ¹⁸ For if I try to build again what I tore down, I really prove myself to be a wrongdoer. ¹⁹ For through the law I myself have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. ²¹ I never can nullify the unmerited favor of God. For if right standing with God could come through law, then Christ died for nothing.