Galatians 2:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.

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  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law.
  • Gal 5:2-4 : 2 Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 For I testify again to every man who is circumcised, that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.
  • Heb 7:11 : 11 If therefore perfection were through the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
  • 1 Cor 15:14 : 14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is vain and your faith is also vain.
  • Gal 2:16 : 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 By which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
  • Mark 7:9 : 9 And he said to them, You completely reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
  • Rom 8:31 : 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  • Gal 2:18 : 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
  • 1 Cor 15:17 : 17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

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  • Gal 2:16-20
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    16Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

    17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? God forbid.

    18For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

    19For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.

    20I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

  • Gal 5:4
    80%

    4Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

  • Gal 3:21
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    21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law.

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

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For 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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    14But God forbid that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Gal 5:1-2
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    1Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

    2Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

  • Col 2:20
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    20Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations,

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for 'The just shall live by faith.'

    12And the law is not of faith, but 'The man who does them shall live in them.'

  • Rom 11:6
    72%

    6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

  • Gal 3:4
    72%

    4Have you suffered so many things in vain, if indeed it is in vain?

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

  • Rom 5:20-21
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    20Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more:

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

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14For sin shall not have dominion over you, for 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 are heirs, faith is made void and the promise nullified.

    15Because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • 1 Cor 9:21
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    21To those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

  • Rom 8:10
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    10And 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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    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is 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 used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • Rom 3:31
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    31Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not: on the contrary, we establish the law.

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

    28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.

  • Eph 2:8
    70%

    8For by grace you are saved through faith; and that not of 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 in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    70%

    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

    2Certainly not. How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer in it?

  • Rom 3:24
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    24being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

  • Rom 7:9
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    9For I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

  • Rom 7:4
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    4Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you may be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

  • Gal 3:2
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    2This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

  • Rom 7:6-7
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    6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'

  • Phil 2:16
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    16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor labored in vain.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30But of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—

  • 2 Cor 5:15
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    15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

  • Rom 8:4
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    4That the righteousness 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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    13Was then that which is good made death unto me? Certainly not. But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good; that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

  • Rom 2:12
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    12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

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