Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Yahusha Messiah, even we have believed in Yahusha Messiah, that we might be justified by the faith of Messiah, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
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Context
14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before all, If you, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
15 We Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Yahusha Messiah, even we have believed in Yahusha Messiah, that we might be justified by the faith of Messiah, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Messiah, we ourselves also are found sinners, therefore Messiah the minister of sin? Elohim forbid.
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.