Galatians 2:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I do not set aside God’s grace, because 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? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.
  • Gal 5:2-4 : 2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all! 3 And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!
  • Heb 7:11 : 11 Jesus and the Priesthood of Melchizedek So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood– for on that basis the people received the law– what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order?
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
  • 1 Cor 15:14 : 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.
  • Gal 2:16 : 16 yet 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.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 and by which 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 thought,“I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” But the LORD will vindicate me; my God will reward me.
  • Mark 7:9 : 9 He also said to them,“You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
  • Rom 8:31 : 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  • Gal 2:18 : 18 But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.
  • 1 Cor 15:17 : 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

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  • Gal 2:16-20
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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!

    18But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

    19For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

    20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated 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? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Gal 5:1-2
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    1Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

    2Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

  • Col 2:20
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    20If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

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

    12But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

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

  • Gal 3:4
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    4Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.

  • Rom 10:4
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    4For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

  • Rom 5:20-21
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    20Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

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

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

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

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

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

  • 1 Cor 9:21
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    21To those free from the law I became like one free from the law(though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

  • Rom 8:10
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    10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your 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– and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Phil 1:21
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    21For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

  • Rom 3:31
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    31Do we then nullify the law through 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 principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

    28For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Eph 2:8
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    8For by grace you are 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 to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination What shall we say then? Are we to remain 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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    24But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 7:9
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    9And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

  • Rom 7:4
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    4So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

  • Gal 3:2
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    2The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

  • Rom 7:6-7
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    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

  • Phil 2:16
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    16by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30He is the reason you have a relationship with 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 so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

  • Rom 8:4
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    4so that the righteous requirement of the law may 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 that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

  • Rom 2:12
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    12For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from 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, but the life he lives, he lives to God.