Galatians 2:21

I do not set aside the Chen v'Chesed Hashem; for if the MAH (how) an ENOSH (man) is to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM + 2:21 Job 25:4 is found through Gezetz chumra, then Moshiach died for nothing and L'TOHU (in vain). + 2:21 Isa 49:4; 65:23

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

20But it is no longer Anochi (I) who lives, but Moshiach who lives in me, and the Chayyim I now live in the basar, I live by emunah, emunah in the Zun fun der Oybershter, + 2:20 Moshiach the one having ahavah (agape) for me and having given himself over, on my behalf.

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Cross References

Psalms 33:10Hashem annuls the atzat Goyim (plan of the Goyim); 1 He foils the machsh'vot Amim (schemes of the peoples). 1

Jeremiah 8:8How can ye say, We are chachamim (wise ones), 1 and the torat Hashem is with us, 1 when, hinei, the et sheker (deceiving pen) of the sofrim (scribes) 1 has made it + 8:8 the torat Hashem into sheker (a falsehood). + 8:8 i.e., falsely authoritative scribal interpretation has twisted Scripture, perverting its truth; see also Jer 2:8; 2K 3:16; here is a warning against false teachers, and it is important because the scribal group in Israel would become the rabbinic group in time to come, and here their doctrines are coming into direct opposition to the Torah and the inerrant prophecies of Jeremiah. 1

Romans 8:31In view of these things, what therefore shall we say? If Hashem is for us, who is against us?

Romans 11:6But if on the mekor (basis) of chen v'chesed (unmerited favor, grace), then not on the mekor (basis) of + 11:6 loin (wages), batsolen (pay) for ma'asim (works), vi-bahlt (since) otherwise chesed would no longer be chesed. + 11:6 Ro 4:4-5

1 Corinthians 15:14And if Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has not been raised, then our darshenen to you was in vain and also in vain is your emunah (faith).

Galatians 2:16Yet we have da'as that a man cannot be YITZDAK IM HASHEM + 2:16 Job 25:4 (be justified with G-d) by [depending on] the ma'asim of Gezetz (Law), but through emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. And we have come to have bitachon in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, that we can be YITZDAK IM HASHEM + 2:16 Job 25:4 (be justified with G-d) by emunah in Moshiach and not by + 2:16 supposed zokheh merit of ma'asim, because by taryag mitzvot KOL CHAI LO YITZDAK + 2:16 Ps 143:2 (all living shall not 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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