Galatians 2:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought: He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of none effect.

Isaiah 49:4

But I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity: yet surely my judgement is with the LORD, and my recompence with my God.

Jeremiah 8:8

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.

Mark 7:9

And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

Romans 10:3

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Romans 11:6

But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

Romans 4:25

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

Romans 8:31

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

1 Corinthians 15:14

and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain.

1 Corinthians 15:17

and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

1 Corinthians 15:2

by which also ye are saved; I make known, I say, in what words I preached it unto you, if ye hold it fast, except ye believed in vain.

Galatians 2:16

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

Galatians 2:18

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.

Hebrews 7:11

Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?