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I don`t make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
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An Unavoidable Choice
Commentators unanimously agree that Paul presents a stark, mutually exclusive choice: either righteousness comes from obeying the law, or it comes through faith in Christ's death. As multiple scholars note, if the law could make us righteous, then Christ's death was entirely unnecessary and 'in vain.' One cannot have it both ways.
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Galatians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I do not frustrate the grace of God. The word rendered "frustrate," atheto, means, properly, to displace, abrogate, or abolish; t…
I do not make void the grace of God (ουκ αθετω την χαριν του θεου). Common word in LXX and Polybius and on, to make ineffective (α…
19th Century
Anglican
By attaching himself devotedly to Christ, the Christian escapes the charge of refusing and thwarting the free gift of justification which God has o…
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Baptist
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
If a man can be saved by hi…
This last sentence of ch. 2 is introduced abruptly and from a new point of view. In the preceding verses Paul has answered the objections of his cr…
16th Century
Protestant
I do not reject. There is great emphasis in this expression; for how dreadful is the ingratitude manifested in despising the grace of God,…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I do not frustrate the grace of God Or "cast it away", as the Vulgate Latin version reads it; or "deny it", as the S…
Here, in his own person, the apostle describes the spiritual or hidden life of a believer. The old man is crucified ([Reference Romans 6:6…
13th Century
Catholic
Here the Apostle expands on the solution given above. First, he explains the solution. Second, he draws his main conclusion (verse 21). It should b…
