Galatians 2:16-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ; we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

¹⁷ But if while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners; is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid.

¹⁸ For if I build up again the things which I have destroyed, I make myself a prevaricator.

¹⁹ For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God: with Christ I am nailed to the cross.

²⁰ And I live, now not I; but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered himself for me.

²¹ I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.