2:15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
2:16 yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through
faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be
justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will
be justified by the works of the law.
2:17 But if, in our effort to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have been found to
be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
2:18 But if I build up again the very things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate
that I am a transgressor.
2:19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been
crucified with Christ;
2:20 and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I
now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for
me.
2:21 I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law,
then Christ died for nothing.
