Galatians 2:21

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I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

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  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.
  • Gal 5:2-4 : 2 Listen! I, Paul, say to you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3 Again I declare to every man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
  • Heb 7:11 : 11 If perfection could have been achieved through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), why was there still a need for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, rather than one according to the order of Aaron?
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer based on works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
  • 1 Cor 15:14 : 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless, and so is your faith.
  • Gal 2:16 : 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 Through this gospel you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 But I said, 'I have worked in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and futility. Yet surely my vindication is with the Lord, and my reward is with my God.'
  • Mark 7:9 : 9 He also said to them, "How skillfully you set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your own tradition.
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and seek to establish their own; they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.
  • Rom 8:31 : 31 What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  • Gal 2:18 : 18 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.
  • 1 Cor 15:17 : 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

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  • Gal 2:16-20
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    16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

    17But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

    18For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

    19For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ.

    20I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You who are justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

  • Gal 3:21
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    21Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

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

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Gal 5:1-2
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    1For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

    2Listen! I, Paul, say to you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

  • Col 2:20
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    20If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.'

    12The law is not based on faith; instead, it says, 'The person who does these things will live by them.'

  • Rom 11:6
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    6And if by grace, then it is no longer based on works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

  • Gal 3:4
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    4Did you suffer so much for nothing—if it really was for nothing?

  • Rom 10:4
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    4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

  • Rom 5:20-21
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    20Now the law was brought in so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more.

    21So that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

    15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not!

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14For if those who are of the law inherit, faith is made void, and the promise is nullified.

    15For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • 1 Cor 9:21
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    21To those without the law, I became like one without the law (not being without God’s law but under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.

  • Rom 8:10
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    10But if Christ is in you, even though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Phil 1:21
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    21For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have not made use of any of these rights, and I am not writing this to make it happen for me. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

  • Rom 3:31
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    31Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Absolutely not! Instead, we uphold the law.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By the law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

    28For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Eph 2:8
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    8For by grace you have been saved through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

  • 1 Cor 15:10
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    10But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

    2Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

  • Rom 3:24
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    24And all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 7:9
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    9At one time I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.

  • Rom 7:4
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    4Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.

  • Gal 3:2
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    2I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

  • Rom 7:6-7
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    6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.'

  • Phil 2:16
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    16holding fast to the word of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I did not labor or run in vain.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

  • 2 Cor 5:15
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    15And he died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

  • Rom 8:4
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    4This was so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

  • Rom 7:13
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    13Did what is good then become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, in order to be recognized as sin, used what is good to bring about my death, so that sin might become utterly sinful through the commandment.

  • Rom 2:12
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    12For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • Rom 6:10
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    10For the death He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life He lives, He lives to God.