Galatians 2:21
I doe not abrogate the grace of God: for if righteousnes be by the Lawe, then Christ dyed without a cause.
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Psalms 33:10The Lord breaketh the counsell of the heathen, and bringeth to nought the deuices of the people.
Jeremiah 8:8Howe doe yee say, Wee are wise, and the Lawe of the Lord is with vs? Loe, certeinly in vaine made hee it, the penne of the scribes is in vaine.
Romans 8:31What shall we then say to these thinges? If God be on our side, who can be against vs?
Romans 11:6And if it be of grace, it is no more of workes: or els were grace no more grace: but if it be of workes, it is no more grace: or els were worke no more worke.
1 Corinthians 15:14And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vaine, and your faith is also vaine.
Galatians 2:16Knowe that a man is not iustified by the works of the Law, but by ye faith of Iesus Christ, euen we, I say, haue beleeued in Iesus Christ, that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ, and not by the workes of the Lawe, because that by the workes of the Lawe, no flesh shalbe iustified.
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 →