Galatians 2:21

I do not make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

New Heart English Bible

In The King James Version

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

In Context

20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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Cross References

Psalms 33:10The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Jeremiah 8:8How can you say, "We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?" But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

Romans 8:31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 11:6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.

1 Corinthians 15:14If Christ has not been raised, then our proclaiming is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

Galatians 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

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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