14. But when I saw that they are not walking straight according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Kĕpha before them all, “If you, being a Yehuḏite, live as a gentile and not as the Yehuḏim, why do you compel gentiles to live as Yehuḏim?
15. “We, Yehuḏim by nature, and not of the gentiles, sinners,
16. knowing that a man is not declared right by works of Torah, but through belief in יהושע Messiah, even we have believed in Messiah יהושע, in order to be declared right by belief in Messiah and not by works of Torah, because by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right.
17. “And if, while seeking to be declared right by Messiah, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Messiah then a servant of sin? Let it not be!
18. “For if I rebuild what I once overthrew, I establish myself a transgressor.
19. “For through Torah I died to Torah, in order to live to Elohim.
20. “I have been impaled with Messiah, and I no longer live, but Messiah lives in me. And that which I now live in the flesh I live by belief in the Son of Elohim, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
21. “I do not set aside the favour of Elohim, for if righteousness is through Torah, then Messiah died for naught.”