Galatians 2:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, `is' then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!

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  • Rom 6:1-2 : 1 What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? 2 let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?
  • Gal 2:15 : 15 we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;
  • Rom 3:4 : 4 let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'
  • Rom 3:6 : 6 let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?
  • Rom 11:7 : 7 What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,
  • Rom 15:8 : 8 And I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers,
  • 2 Cor 3:7-9 : 7 and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless, 8 how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory? 9 for if the ministration of the condemnation `is' glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;
  • Gal 2:11 : 11 And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,
  • Rom 9:30-33 : 30 What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that `is' of faith, 31 and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive; 32 wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling, 33 according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'
  • 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil; 9 every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten. 10 In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,
  • Matt 1:21 : 21 and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,
  • Heb 7:24-28 : 24 and he, because of his remaining -- to the age, hath the priesthood not transient, 25 whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them. 26 For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens, 27 who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself; 28 for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that `is' after the law `appointeth' the Son -- to the age having been perfected.
  • Heb 8:2 : 2 of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,

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    18for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;

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