The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Galatians 2:21 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 [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) I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought. Common English Bible 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 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 I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain. |
The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchiz´edek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?