Galatians 2:21

World English Bible (2000)

I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

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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 make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
  • Gal 5:2-4 : 2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
  • Heb 7:11 : 11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to 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 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
  • Gal 2:16 : 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God."
  • Mark 7:9 : 9 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
  • 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 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
  • 1 Cor 15:17 : 17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 2:16-20
    5 verses
    81%

    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

    18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

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

    20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

  • Gal 5:4
    80%

    4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • Gal 3:21
    77%

    21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

  • Phil 3:9
    75%

    9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

  • Rom 8:2
    74%

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

  • Gal 6:14
    74%

    14 But far be it from me to 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
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

    2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

  • Col 2:20
    73%

    20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

  • Gal 3:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

    12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

  • Rom 11:6
    72%

    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.

  • Gal 3:4
    72%

    4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

  • Rom 10:4
    72%

    4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

  • Rom 5:20-21
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    72%

    20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

    21 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
    2 verses
    72%

    14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

    15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

  • Rom 4:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

    15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

  • 1 Cor 9:21
    71%

    21 to 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
    71%

    10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
    71%

    17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

  • Rom 3:20
    71%

    20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Phil 1:21
    71%

    21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    71%

    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • Rom 3:31
    71%

    31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

  • Rom 3:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

    28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Eph 2:8
    70%

    8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  • 1 Cor 15:10
    70%

    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • Rom 6:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

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

    2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

  • Rom 3:24
    70%

    24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

  • Rom 7:9
    70%

    9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

  • Rom 7:4
    70%

    4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

  • Gal 3:2
    69%

    2 I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

  • Rom 7:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

  • Phil 2:16
    69%

    16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
    69%

    30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

  • 2 Cor 5:15
    69%

    15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

  • Rom 8:4
    69%

    4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

  • Rom 7:13
    69%

    13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

  • Rom 2:12
    69%

    12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • Rom 6:10
    69%

    10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.