Galatians 2:14-16

In a moment life as we know it can be changed….it is God’s desire that no man perish but that all will be saved through faith in Jesus Christ. It is not about our goodness but His. Obeying the laws is just an outward expression of our inward change.


By the grace of God, the only way to be justified (declared righteous or pardoned) is through faith in Jesus Christ. Any other way allows works, whether keeping the law of Moses or performing good deeds in general, to play a role in justification. This is the main point of Paul’s letter to the Galatians: Salvation or righteousness cannot be obtained by obeying the law. Salvation is only through faith in Jesus Christ.

Galatians 2:14-16

14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, 7why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews? 15 We who are 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 faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.