16 And yet, having learned that a man is not justified by works of the law, but only by faith in Jesus Christ, we also believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh can be justified.

17 If, however, in seeking justification in Christ, we ourselves have become sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? Nohow.

18 For if I build up again what I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

19 By the law I died to the law, that I might live for God. I was crucified with Christ,

20 and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And since I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

21 I do not reject the grace of God; but if justification is by the law, then Christ died in vain.

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1 O foolish Galatians! Who deceived you not to submit to the truth, you who had Jesus Christ predestined before your eyes, as if crucified?

2 This I only want to know from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by instruction in the faith?

3 Are you so foolish that, having begun in the Spirit, you now end in the flesh?

4 Have you suffered so much in vain? Oh, if only it were useless!

5 Does he who giveth you the Spirit, and doeth miracles among you, by the works of the law, or by instruction in the faith?

6 Thus Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

7 Know therefore that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.

8 And the Scriptures, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, foretold to Abraham, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

9 Therefore believers are blessed with faithful Abraham,

10 And all that are established in the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not continually do all that is written in the book of the law.

11 And that no man is justified before God by the law, this is clear, for the righteous shall live by faith.