14 But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas[a] in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile(A) and not like a Jew,(B) how can you compel Gentiles to live(C) like Jews?” [b]

15 We are Jews by birth and not “Gentile sinners,” 16 and yet because we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law(D) but by faith in Jesus Christ,[c] even we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus. This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ[d] and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will[e] be justified.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:14 Other mss read Peter
  2. 2:14 Some translations continue the quotation through v. 16 or v. 21.
  3. 2:16 Or by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ
  4. 2:16 Or by the faithfulness of Christ
  5. 2:16 Lit law all flesh will not

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