Galatians 2:21 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²¹ I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification were through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.

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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 naught; 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 right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.”

Jeremiah 8:8

“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.

Mark 7:9

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

Romans 10:3

For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit 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 put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?

1 Corinthians 15:14

if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching 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

by which you are saved, if you hold it fast—unless you believed in vain.

Galatians 2:16

yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified.

Galatians 2:18

But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.

Hebrews 7:11

Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?