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Galatians 2:17 KJV
Galatians · chapter 2 · verse 17
But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.Galatians 2:17 · King James Version
Galatians 2:17 in context
15We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16Knowing 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.
17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
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Key words (Strong's)
- justifieddikaioōto render righteous or such he ought to be, to show, exhibit, evince, one to be…G1344 →
- ourselvesautoshimself, herself, themselves, itself, he, she, it, the sameG846 →
- ministerdiakonosone who executes the commands of another, esp. of a master, a servant, attendant…G1249 →
- sinnershamartōlosdevoted to sin, a sinner, not free from sin, pre-eminently sinful, especially wicked, all…G268 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- forbidmēno, not lestG3361 →
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I. From the account which Paul gives of what passed between him and the other apostles at Jerusalem, the Galatians might easily discern both the falseness of what his enemies had insinuated against him and their own folly and weakness in departing from that gospel which he had preached to them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-21