Galatians 2:21

I do not set aside the grace of God: for if righteousness be through law, then Christ has died in vain.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

In Context

20I have been crucified with Christ, yet I live; no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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Cross References

Romans 8:31What, then, shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Romans 11:6And if the election is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.

1 Corinthians 15:14And if Christ has not been raised, then vain is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

Galatians 2:16knowing 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.

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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