Galatians 2:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ [Therefore, I do not treat God's gracious gift as something of minor importance and defeat its very purpose]; I do not set aside and invalidate and frustrate and nullify the grace (unmerited favor) of God. For if justification (righteousness, acquittal from guilt) comes through [observing the ritual of] the Law, then Christ (the Messiah) died groundlessly and to no purpose and in vain. [His death was then wholly superfluous.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

Common English Bible

²¹ I don’t ignore the grace of God, because if we become righteous through the Law, then Christ died for no purpose.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ I do not reject the grace of God. For if justice is through the law, then Christ died in vain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Galatians 2:21 Cross References

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Isaiah 49:4

But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with the Lord and my reward with my God.”

Jeremiah 8:8

How can you say, “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us,” when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie?

Mark 7:9

Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

Romans 10:3

Not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

Romans 11:6

But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Romans 4:25

who was handed over for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

Romans 8:31

What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

1 Corinthians 15:14

and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain and your faith is in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:17

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins.

1 Corinthians 15:2

through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain.

Galatians 2:16

yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.

Galatians 2:18

But if I build up again the very things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a transgressor.

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.

Hebrews 7:11

Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood—for the people received the law under this priesthood—what further need would there have been to speak of another priest arising according to the order of Melchizedek rather than one according to the order of Aaron?