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Galatians 2:21

I do not reject the grace of God. For if justice is through the law, then Christ died in vain.

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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 live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.

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Cross References

Psalms 33:10Fear the Lord, all you his saints. For there is no destitution for those who fear him.

Jeremiah 8:8How can you say: ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?’ Truly, the lying pen of the scribes has wrought falsehood.

Romans 8:31So, what should we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Romans 11:6And if it is by grace, then it is not now by works; otherwise grace is no longer free.

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

Galatians 2:16And we know that man is not justified by the works of the law, but only by the faith of Jesus Christ. And so we believe in Christ Jesus, in order that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law. For no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

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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