Galatians 2:16
yet we know that no person is justified by the works of the law but through faith in Christ Jesus. We also came to faith in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law. For by the works of the law no flesh will be justified.
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15We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
Cross References
Job 9:29I will be condemned; 1 why, then, should I try in vain? 1
Psalms 130:3If you, Yahweh, would mark iniquities, 1 Lord, who could stand? 1
Luke 10:25Behold, a certain teacher of the Jewish laws stood up so that he might test him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
John 20:31but these have been written so that you would believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that believing, you would have life in his name.
Acts 13:38So let it be known to you, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you forgiveness of sins.
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to the ones who are under the law. This is in order that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world held accountable to God.
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 →