Galatians 2:17
If, while seeking to be pronounced righteous through union with Christ, we were ourselves seen to be sinners, would that make Christ an agent of sin? Heaven forbid!
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18For, if I rebuild the things that I pulled down, I prove myself to have done wrong.
Cross References
Romans 3:4God must prove true, though everyone prove a liar! As scripture says of God – ‘That you may be pronounced righteous in what you say, and gain your cause when people would judge you.’
Romans 6:1What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God’s loving kindness may be multiplied?
Romans 11:7What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.
2 Corinthians 3:7If the system of religion which involved death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses because of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,
Galatians 2:15We, though we are Jews by birth and not sinners of Gentile origin, know that no one is pronounced righteous as the result of obedience to Law, but only through faith in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 7:24but Jesus remains for all time, and therefore the priesthood that he holds will never pass to another.
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 →