13. Then the rest of the Jews joined his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
14. But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel Gentiles to live like Jews? ”
15. We who are Jews by birth and not “Gentile sinners”
16. know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.
17. But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ, is Christ then a promoter of sin? Absolutely not!
18. If I rebuild the system I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker.
19. For through the law I have died to the law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ