Galatians 2:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
  • Gal 5:2-4 : 2 See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you. 3 Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law. 4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.
  • Heb 7:11 : 11 Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
  • 1 Cor 15:14 : 14 And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.
  • Gal 2:16 : 16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
  • Mark 7:9 : 9 And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
  • Rom 8:31 : 31 What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
  • Gal 2:18 : 18 For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.
  • 1 Cor 15:17 : 17 And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 2:16-20
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    16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

    17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

    18 For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

    19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

    20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

  • Gal 3:21
    77%

    21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9 And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

  • Rom 8:2
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    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

  • Gal 5:1-2
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    1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

    2 See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

  • Col 2:20
    73%

    20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11 Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.

    12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

  • Rom 11:6
    72%

    6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

  • Gal 3:4
    72%

    4 Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.

  • Rom 10:4
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    4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith.

  • Rom 5:20-21
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    20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

    21 That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

    15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14 For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;

    15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • 1 Cor 9:21
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    21 To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

  • Rom 8:10
    71%

    10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17 For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Phil 1:21
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    21 For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

  • Rom 3:31
    71%

    31 Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27 What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

    28 For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

  • Eph 2:8
    70%

    8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

  • 1 Cor 15:10
    70%

    10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    70%

    1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

    2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • Rom 3:24
    70%

    24 And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

  • Rom 7:9
    70%

    9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

  • Rom 7:4
    70%

    4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

  • Gal 3:2
    69%

    2 Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

  • Rom 7:6-7
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    6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

  • Phil 2:16
    69%

    16 Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

  • 2 Cor 5:15
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    15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

  • Rom 8:4
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    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

  • Rom 7:13
    69%

    13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

  • Rom 2:12
    69%

    12 All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

  • Rom 6:10
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    10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.