Galatians 2:21

I do not reject the love of God. If righteousness comes through Law, then there was no need for Christ to die!

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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 have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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Cross References

Psalms 33:10The Lord frustrates the designs of the nations, what the peoples have purposed, he brings to nought,

Romans 8:31What are we to say, then, in the light of all this? If God is on our side, who can there be against us?

Romans 11:6But if in love, then it is not as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.

1 Corinthians 15:14and, if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without meaning, and our faith without meaning also!

Galatians 2:16So we placed our faith in Christ Jesus, in order that we might be pronounced righteous, as the result of faith in Christ, and not of obedience to Law; for such obedience will not result in even one soul’s being pronounced righteous.

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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