15 We are Jews by birth and not sinners from among the Gentiles.
16 Yet we know that a person is set right not by deeds based on Torah, but rather through putting trust in Messiah Yeshua. So even we have put our trust in Messiah Yeshua, in order that we might be set right based on trust in Messiah and not by deeds based on Torah—because no human will be justified by deeds based on Torah.
17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Messiah, we ourselves also were found to be sinners, is Messiah then an agent of sin? May it never be!
18 For if I rebuild the very things I tore down, I prove myself to be a law-breaker.
19 For through law I died to law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Messiah;
20 and it is no longer I who live, but Messiah lives in me. And the life I now live in the body, I live by trusting in Ben-Elohim—who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
21 I do not nullify the grace of God—for if righteousness comes through Torah, then Messiah died for no reason!