Justification

Shalom in Mashiyach’s Name,

For sisters and brothers observe Torah:

I notice some self-righteous teachers are concerned about verse especially Galatians 2:21 are misinterpreting.
We all read Galatians Chapter 2 please click on Galatians 2. I pray for this beloved spiritual reawakening blindness self righteous sisters and brothers in Mashiyach’s Name.

Now we all see Galatians 2:21 TLV and CJB (you can check all versions):

(CJB) I do not reject God’s gracious gift; for if the way in which one attains righteousness is through legalism, then the Messiah’s death was pointless.

(TLV) I do not nullify the grace of God—for if righteousness comes through Torah, then Messiah died for no reason!

Sadly seeing self-righteous teachers misinterpreted their own views on observing justification comes through Torah first.

What is Galatians 2:21 meaning?

The answer is

Galatians 2:21b TLV……….for if righteousness comes through Torah, then Messiah died for no reason!

Read this: The Hebrew basic word by chumra (legalism), [i.e., legal justification] by chukim of the Torah, are estranged from Mashiyach (Messiah)!

Job 25:4 TLV

How then can a man be righteous with God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Bless Akhi Andrew G. Roth (May 9, 2013):

Galatians 5:4
Some seek “justification” through observance of Torah, others seek it by not observing Torah; both pursuits are based on man’s religion.

The answer is to observe Torah in YHWH and His Mashiyach and live righteously as Y’shua did. Put trust and Faith in YHWH, not in works or religion, but as co-laborers with Mashiyach!

Galatians 5:1-6: 

1. Therefore you stand in the liberty of the Mashiyach, liberty and not subjugation, turning from the yoke of servitude.

2. Behold, I Paul say to you, if you are circumcised,[1] then Mashiyach is a thing that has no benefit for you.

3. I testify to you again (return to my testifying),[2] that every circumcised man is obligated to act on the entire Torah.

4. Those of you who are in Torah and who are seeking justification (from it),[3] you have ceased to be from Mashiyach, (and therefore) you have fallen from grace.

5. For we, through the blessings of the Spirit, which is from faith, abide in the hope of righteousness.

6. For in Mashiyach Y’shua, circumcision and uncircumcision are nothing, but faith is completed[4] through love.

AENT Footnote: 

[1] If a person is immersed (baptized) or circumcised to please the status quo, it profits them nothing. Paul is referring to traditional, religious, Pharisaical, peer group circumcisions that are required before acceptance into status quo religious organizations. Christians who have been baptized into the name of a denomination can likely relate to this as well. Many Christians choose to be re-baptized after realizing their former baptism was into a denominational religion, rather than into the Kingdom of Elohim.

[2] The word tob has multiple meanings; the root means “to return” and this covers several related ideas. Semitic thought has always viewed morality as a straight path (Isaiah 40:3, Matthew 3:3). An evil person is one who is lost or has taken a crooked path, but if he repents he is said to have “turned back.” That is why a variant on this word teshuvah means “to repent.” In this case, Rav Shaul is literally “returning” to his main point.

[3] Some seek “justification” through observance of Torah, others seek it by not observing Torah; both pursuits are based on man’s religion. The answer is to observe Torah in YHWH and His Mashiyach and live righteously as Y’shua did. Put trust and Faith in YHWH, not in works or religion, but as co-laborers with Mashiyach!

[4] This can also mean “perfected.”

HalleluYAH! Galatians 2:15-16 CJB

¹⁵ “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles ¹⁶ know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in^[d] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

Footnote:

Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of

Yeshua haMashiyach (Jesus Christ):