yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
No flesh means human nature itself is utterly corrupt. That word carries great force: man cannot justify himself by his own works under any law, but only through faith in Christ Jesus.
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Peter came to Antioch eating freely with Gentile believers, as the Spirit had taught him; but when Jewish Christians arrived, he withdrew, and this hypocrisy I had to oppose to his face. His fault proved plainly that he was not superior to me, and so the papacy's claim to his infallibility falls to pieces.
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Commenting on Galatians 2:11-21
Works of the law cannot be the ground of justification; faith is the sole instrument and means. Paul rests on an axiom: by works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Whether moral or ceremonial, the law is opposed to faith as doing is to believing, wages to gift, curse to blessing.
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