17 For the law was given through Moses;(A) grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.(B)

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17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

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Righteousness Through Faith

21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God(A) has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.(B)

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21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

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16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace(A) and may be guaranteed(B) to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.(C)

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16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

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20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase.(A) But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,(B)

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20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

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14 For sin shall no longer be your master,(A) because you are not under the law,(B) but under grace.(C)

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14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

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Slaves to Righteousness

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?(A) By no means!

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15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

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For what the law was powerless(A) to do because it was weakened by the flesh,[a](B) God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh(C) to be a sin offering.[b](D) And so he condemned sin in the flesh,

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13.
  2. Romans 8:3 Or flesh, for sin

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

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21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law,(A) Christ died for nothing!”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:21 Some interpreters end the quotation after verse 14.

21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

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16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law,(A) but by faith in Jesus Christ.(B) So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.(C)

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  1. Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of

16 Knowing 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.

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11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God,(A) because “the righteous will live by faith.”[a](B)

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  1. Galatians 3:11 Hab. 2:4

11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

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18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise;(A) but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.

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18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

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You who are trying to be justified by the law(A) have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.(B)

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Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

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and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law,(A) but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness(B) that comes from God on the basis of faith.(C)

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  1. Philippians 3:9 Or through the faithfulness of

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

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