Galatians 2:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But if, in our effort to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But if, in our desire and endeavor to be justified in Christ [to be declared righteous and put in right standing with God wholly and solely through Christ], we have shown ourselves sinners also and convicted of sin, does that make Christ a minister (a party and contributor) to our sin? Banish the thought! [Of course not!]

American Standard Version (1901)

But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

Common English Bible

But if it is discovered that we ourselves are sinners while we are trying to be made righteous in Christ, then is Christ a servant of sin? Absolutely not!

Catholic Public Domain Version

But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are also found to be sinners, would then Christ be the minister of sin? Let it not be so!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But if while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners; is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid.

Galatians 2:17 Cross References

Matthew 1:21

She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

Luke 20:16

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Heaven forbid!”

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel has not achieved what it was pursuing. The elect have achieved it, but the rest were hardened,

Romans 15:8

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God in order that he might confirm the promises given to the ancestors

Romans 3:4

By no means! Although every human is a liar, let God be proved true, as it is written, “So that you may be justified in your words and you will prevail when you go to trial.”

Romans 3:6

By no means! For then how could God judge the world?

Galatians 2:11

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood self-condemned,

Galatians 2:15

We ourselves are Jews by birth and not gentile sinners,

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law.

Galatians 6:14

May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

Hebrews 8:2

a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent that the Lord, and not any mortal, has set up.

1 John 3:5

You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.