Galatians 2:17

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are also found sinners, is Christ, therefore, the minister of sin? It can not be.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

In Context

16knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed on Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of law: because, by works of law no flesh shall be justified.

18For if I build again those things which I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

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Cross References

Romans 3:4It can not be. But let God be true, though every man be a liar, as it is written: That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Romans 6:1What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

Romans 11:7What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened to this day,

2 Corinthians 3:7For if the ministering of death, by means of a covenant that was written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the sons of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, which glory was to come to an end:

Galatians 2:15We, who are Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners,

Hebrews 7:24But this man, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

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 →

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