Galatians 2:17
But if, while seeking to be made righteous in Christ, we ourselves were also found sinful, then is Christ an aide of sin? May it not happen!
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18For if I build again these things that I torn down, I demonstrate myself a transgressor.
Cross References
Romans 3:4May it not happen! But let it come to pass God is true, but every man a liar, as it is written, That thou may ever be justified in thy words, and may prevail when thou are criticized.
Romans 6:1What will we say then? We continue in sin so that grace may abound?
Romans 11:7What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain. But the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened,
2 Corinthians 3:7But if the administration of death in writings engraved on stones occurred in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze upon the face of Moses because of the fading glory of his countenance,
Galatians 2:15We are Jews by nature and not sinful men of the Gentiles,
Hebrews 7:24but he, because of his remaining into the age, has the priesthood unchangeable.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 2:12-21
Peter Reproved by Paul. ( a. d. 56.) 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the… Read the whole commentary →