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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:21

‘I do not make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the Law then Christ is dead in vain.’ The suggestion from this verse is that others do make void the grace of God, for they insist that righteousness comes through the (impossible) strict observance of the Law and obedience to the covenant. It may even be that some had said that Paul made void the grace of God because he rejected the Law and covenant so graciously given. But, he says, it is not he who makes void the grace of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:11-21

Galatians 2:11-Ecclesiastes : . Excitement and consequent confusion rise higher still. In one sense, these verses record a climax; Paul is not merely Peter’ s equal— he had exposed him once when Peter was “ plainly in the wrong.” There is no ground for doubting that the order of time is followed. After the Jerusalem compact, Peter finds himself at Antioch (on a missionary tour? cf. 1 Corinthians 9:5). If Titus had been an outsider at Jerusalem, the tables are now turned, and Peter is the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Galatians 2:21

I do not frustrate the grace of God; I do not despise, reject, make void, (for by all these words the word here used is translated, Mark 7:9; John 12:48; John 3:15; Hebrews 10:28), the free love of God, in giving his Son to die for our sins: from whence is easily gathered, that those who live a loose life, and take a liberty to sin, from their justification, or from the free grace of God in Christ, they do contemn and despise the grace of God: or rather, (if we refer it to the following words),... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Galatians 2:11-21

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESGalatians 2:11. When Peter was come to Antioch I withstood him to the face.—The strongest proof of the independence of his apostleship in relation to the other apostles, and an unanswerable argument against the Romish dogma of the supremacy of St. Peter.Galatians 2:13. The other Jews dissembled likewise with him.—The question was not whether Gentiles were admissible to the Christian covenant without becoming circumcised, ‘but whether the Gentile Christians were to... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Galatians 2:21

grace Grace (in salvation). vs. Galatians 5:4; Romans 3:24. (See Scofield "Romans 3:24- :") . righteousness (See Scofield "Romans 3:24- :") . read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Galatians 2:1-21

Chapter 2Then fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and I took Titus with me also ( Galatians 2:1 ).So Paul no doubt had been ministering in Syria and Cilicia, the area around Tarsus, his home city, his hometown, and there had been Gentiles that he had brought to the faith of Jesus Christ, Titus being one of them. Now Barnabas, one of the brethren in the church there in Jerusalem decided to go to Tarsus because there was a work of God being accomplished in Antioch and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Galatians 2:1-21

Galatians 2:1-2 . Then fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem, and took Titus, his fellow-labourer. Luke adds, “and others also.” Acts 15:2. We may gather from this, that Luke was of the company. I went up by revelation, says the apostle, or by a special direction from heaven. Strong remonstrances had been made by the deputation sent from Jerusalem, against the admission of the “multitude” of gentile converts into the church, without first subjecting them to the ceremonial... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Galatians 2:20-21

Galatians 2:20-21I am crucified with Christ.The believer’s riddleThis verse enunciates three striking paradoxes which are realized in the experience of every Christian.I. The judicial paradox, or the mystery of the believer’s legal standing. The believer, be it remembered, is a dead man to begin with, i.e., before he becomes a believer. In his natural condition he is an unpardoned transgressor, and therefore in the law’s eye as good as dead. He is already taken, charged, tried, convicted,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Galatians 2:21

Galatians 2:21I do not frustrate the grace of God.Salvation by works a criminal doctrine1. The idea of salvation by the merit of our own works is exceedingly insinuating. When it gains the least foothold, it soon makes great advances. The only way to deal with it is to stamp it out. War to the knife. No surrender.2. This error is exceedingly plausible. Said to encourage virtue. But where will you find a devout and upright man who glories in his own works?3. Self-righteousness is natural to our... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Galatians 2:21

do not: Galatians 2:18, Psalms 33:10, Mark 7:9, *marg. Romans 8:31 righteousness: Galatians 2:16, Galatians 3:21, Galatians 5:2-Numbers :, Romans 10:3, Romans 11:6, Hebrews 7:11 Christ: Isaiah 49:4, Jeremiah 8:8, 1 Corinthians 15:2, 1 Corinthians 15:14, 1 Corinthians 15:17 Reciprocal: Numbers 35:32 - General Job 15:4 - castest off Luke 7:30 - rejected John 15:25 - without Romans 3:4 - God forbid Romans 3:31 - do we Romans 4:14 - For if Romans 6:3 - were 2 Corinthians 6:1 - the Galatians... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:21

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:11-21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Galatians 2:21

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Galatians 2:11-21

Scofield's Reference Notes - Galatians 2:21

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Galatians 2:1-21

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Galatians 2:1-21

The Biblical Illustrator - Galatians 2:20-21

The Biblical Illustrator - Galatians 2:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Galatians 2:21

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