Galatians 2:17

For if seeking to be justified by Christ, we also ourselves should be found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? God forbid.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

In Context

16knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law; because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

18For if I build up again the very same things which I have pulled down, I stamp myself a transgressor.

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Cross References

Romans 3:4God forbid: but let God be true, though every man were a liar; as it is written, “That thou mayest be acknowledged just in thy sayings, and overcome when thou art judged.”

Romans 6:1THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound?

Romans 11:7What then is the result? Israel hath not obtained that which it seeketh; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded,

2 Corinthians 3:7For if the ministry of death in letters graven on stone, was attended with glory, so that the children of Israel could not keep their eyes fixed upon the countenance of Moses, because of the glory of his countenance, though soon evanescent;

Galatians 2:15We who are Jews by descent, and not sinners sprung from Gentiles,

Hebrews 7:24but this person, because he abideth for ever, hath a priesthood that passeth not over 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 →

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