Galatians 2:21
Greek Text— Galatians 2:21I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
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Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”
So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”
Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”
He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
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.
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.
That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,
Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says Yahweh: ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
not of works, that no one would boast.
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,
He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
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.
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
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.
Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
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?
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;” the Most High himself will establish her.
If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’ ”
They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
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.”
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.
“ ‘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.
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
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?
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.