Galatians 2:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

Galatians 2:17 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 6:1-2
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? …
1 John 3:8-10
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. …
1 John 3:5
And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
Galatians 2:15
We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Matthew 1:21
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Topics

Godliness Holiness Justification Perfection Sanctification Sin

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-21)

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. But to give the greater weight to what he had already said, and more fully to fortify them against the i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. Greek, “But if, seeking to be justified IN (that is, in believing union with) Christ (who has in the Gospel theory fulfilled the law for us), we (you and I) ourselves also were found (in your and my former communion with Gentiles) sinners (such as from the Jewish standpoint that now we resume, we should be regarded, since we have cast aside the law, thus having put ourselves in the same catego…