Galatians 2:15

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The Justification of Jews and Gentiles We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

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  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
  • Rom 3:9 : 9 The Condemnation of the World What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants– not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
  • Eph 2:11-12 : 11 New Life Corporately Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“uncircumcision” by the so-called“circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands– 12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Phil 3:4 : 4 – though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:
  • 1 Sam 15:18 : 18 The LORD sent you on a campaign saying,‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you have destroyed them.’
  • Matt 3:7-9 : 7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, 9 and don’t think you can say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
  • Matt 9:11 : 11 When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples,“Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
  • Mark 7:26-28 : 26 The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 He said to her,“Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs.” 28 She answered,“Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
  • John 8:39-41 : 39 They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham. 40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this! 41 You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”
  • Acts 22:21 : 21 Then he said to me,‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

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  • Rom 3:9
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    9The Condemnation of the World What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

  • Gal 2:14
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    14But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

    17But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

  • Rom 2:26-29
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    26Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

    27The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision!

    28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

    29but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

  • Rom 2:13-15
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    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

    15They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

  • Rom 9:30
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    30Israel’s Rejection Culpable What shall we say then?– that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

  • Rom 2:17
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    17The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

  • Rom 3:29
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    29Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

  • Acts 15:11
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    11On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”

  • Acts 15:19
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    19“Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God,

  • Rom 9:24
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    24even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

  • Eph 2:9-12
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    9it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

    10For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.

    11New Life Corporately Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“uncircumcision” by the so-called“circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands–

    12that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

  • Gal 2:3-4
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    3Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

    4Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

  • Phil 3:3
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    3For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials

  • Rom 2:9-10
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    9There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

    10but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

  • Gal 2:12
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    12Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.

  • Phil 3:5
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    5I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.

  • Gal 2:6-10
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    6But from those who were influential(whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people)– those influential leaders added nothing to my message.

    7On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised

    8(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

    9and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

    10They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

  • Rom 11:1
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    1Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

  • 1 Thess 2:14-16
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    14For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

    15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,

    16because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

  • Eph 2:3
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    3among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

  • Rom 2:2
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    2Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

  • 1 Cor 9:20
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    20To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law(though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law.

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

  • Acts 2:10
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    10Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

  • Gal 3:14
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    14in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

  • 2 Cor 7:2
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    2Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.

  • Rom 2:24
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    24For just as it is written,“the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

  • Rom 6:15
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    15The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

  • Acts 15:24
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    24Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us with no orders from us and have confused you, upsetting your minds by what they said,

  • Phil 3:9
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    9and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.