Galatians 2:17

And if, while we seek to become just by the Messiah, we are found to be ourselves sinners, is Jesus the Messiah therefore the minister of sin? Far be it!

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

16because we know that a man is not made just by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus the Messiah; even we have believed in Jesus the Messiah, in order to be made just by faith in the Messiah, and not by the works of the law: for, by the deeds of the law, no flesh is made just.

18For if I should build up again the things I had demolished, I should show myself to be a transgressor of the precept.

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Cross References

Romans 3:4Far be it: for God is veracious, and every man false: as it is written: That thou mightest be upright, in thy declarations; and be found pure, when they judge thee.

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

Romans 11:7What then? Israel did not obtain that which it sought: but the election obtained it; and the rest of them were blinded in their heart,

2 Corinthians 3:7Now if the ministration of death was engraved upon stones in writing, and was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look on the face of Moses, on account of the glory upon his face which vanished away;

Galatians 2:15For if we, who are Jews by nature, and are not sinners of the Gentiles,

Hebrews 7:24but this man, because he standeth up for ever, his priesthood doth not pass away:

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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