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Galatians 2:21

I do not nullify the grace of God; for if acquittal from guilt is obtainable through the Law, then Christ has died in vain."

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

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Cross References

Romans 8:31What then shall we say to this? If God is on our side, who is there to appear against us?

Romans 11:6But if it is in His grace that He has selected them, then His choice is no longer determined by human actions. Otherwise grace would be grace no longer.

1 Corinthians 15:14And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.

Galatians 2:16know that it is not through obedience to Law that a man can be declared free from guilt, but only through faith in Jesus Christ. We have therefore believed in Christ Jesus, for the purpose of being declared free from guilt, through faith in Christ and not through obedience to Law. For through obedience to Law no human being shall be declared free from guilt.

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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