October 9, 2012, Reading

2:13	And the other Jews consented to his pretense, so that even Barnabas was led by them into that falseness.
2:14	But when I had seen that they were not walking correctly, by the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas in front of everyone: “If you, while you are a Jew, are living like the Gentiles and not the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to keep the customs of the Jews?”
2:15	By nature, we are Jews, and not of the Gentiles, sinners.
2:16	And we know that man is not justified by the works of the law, but only by the faith of Jesus Christ. And so we believe in Christ Jesus, in order that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law. For no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
2:17	But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are also found to be sinners, would then Christ be the minister of sin? Let it not be so!
2:18	For if I rebuild the things that I have destroyed, I establish myself as a prevaricator.
2:19	For through the law, I have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God. I have been nailed to the cross with Christ.
2:20	I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.

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