Galatians 2:21
How could I dismiss God's grace? For if we could be made right through keeping the law then Christ died a pointless death!
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Psalms 33:10The Lord foils the decisions of the nations, he frustrates the plans of the peoples,
Jeremiah 8:8How on earth can you say, “We're wise, and we have the Law of the Lord?” Can't you see that the writings of your teachers of the Law have turned it into lies?
Romans 8:31So what's our response to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 11:6And since it's through grace, then clearly it's not based on what people do, otherwise grace wouldn't be grace!
1 Corinthians 15:14And if Christ isn't raised, then our message we shared with you is pointless, and your trust in God is pointless too.
Galatians 2:16but we know that nobody is made right by doing what the law demands—it is only through trusting in Jesus Christ. We have trusted in Christ Jesus so that we could be made right by placing our confidence in Christ, and not through doing what the law says—because nobody is made right by observing the requirements 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 →