002:014 As soon as I saw that they were not walking uprightly in the spirit of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, though you are a Jew, live as a Gentile does, and not as a Jew, how can you make the Gentiles follow Jewish customs? 002:015 You and I, though we are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, 002:016 know that it is not through obedience to Law that a man can be declared free from guilt, but only through faith in Jesus Christ. We have therefore believed in Christ Jesus, for the purpose of being declared free from guilt, through faith in Christ and not through obedience to Law. For through obedience to Law no human being shall be declared free from guilt. 002:017 But if while we are seeking in Christ acquittal from guilt we ourselves are convicted of sin, Christ then encourages us to sin! No, indeed. 002:018 Why, if I am now rebuilding that structure of sin which I had demolished, I am thereby constituting myself a transgressor; 002:019 for it is by the Law that I have died to the Law, in order that I may live to God. 002:020 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf. 002:021 I do not nullify the grace of God; for if acquittal from guilt is obtainable through the Law, then Christ has died in vain." 003:001 You foolish Galatians! Whose sophistry has bewitched you-- you to whom Jesus Christ has been vividly portrayed as on the Cross? 003:002 Answer me this one question, "Is it on the ground of your obedience to the Law that you received the Spirit, or is it because, when you heard, you believed?" 003:003 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external? 003:004 Have you endured such sufferings to no purpose--if indeed it has been to no purpose? 003:005 He who gives you His Spirit and works miracles among you-- does He do so on the ground of your obedience to the Law, or is it the result of your having heard and believed: 003:006 even as Abraham believed God, and his faith was placed to his account as righteousness? 003:007 Notice therefore that those who possess faith are true sons of Abraham. 003:008 And the Scripture, foreseeing that in consequence of faith God would declare the nations to be free from guilt, sent beforehand the Good News to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed." 003:009 So we see that it is those who possess faith that are blessed with believing Abraham.