Galatians 2:18

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

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

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Let all that you do be done in love.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”

Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”

“ ‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs.

crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

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

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness.”

Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,