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Galatians 2:15

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“We grew up as Jews. We’re not sinful Gentiles.

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At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived, and controlled by all kinds of wrong desires and pleasures. We were hostile and envious. Other people hated us, and we hated them.

At one time we all lived among those things. We followed our wrong desires and thoughts, and we tried to satisfy what they wanted us to do. God was angry with us, as he was with everyone else, because of the kind of people we all were.

What should we say then? Do we Jews have any advantage? Not at all! We have already claimed that both Jews and Gentiles are under the power of sin.

Others may think they have reasons to trust in those things, but I have even more.

That’s why the promise comes by faith, so that it can be based on God’s grace and be guaranteed to all of Abraham’s children. That means not only those who are his children under the law, but also those who are Abraham’s children because have the same faith that he did. He is the father of us all.

“Then the Lord said to me, ‘Go, I’m sending you far away to the Gentiles.’ ”

When the Pharisees saw this, they asked the disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

He said, ‘The Son of Man must be handed over to sinful people and be nailed to a cross, but on the third day he will rise from the dead.’ ”

“But what if, as we seek to be made right with God through Christ, we Jews find ourselves to be sinners? Does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Certainly not!




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