Galatians 2:21
I do not spurn the grace of God. For if righteousness is by means of the law, the Messiah died in vain.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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Romans 8:31What then shall we say of these things? If God is for us; who is against us?
Romans 11:6But if by grace, it is not by works: otherwise, grace is not grace. And if by works, it is not by grace: Otherwise, work is not work.
1 Corinthians 15:14And if the Messiah hath not risen, our preaching is vain, and your faith also vain.
Galatians 2:16because 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.
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 →