Galatians 2:17 Cross References
Galatians 2:17
17: But what if we seek to be made right with God through faith in Christ and then find out that we are still sinners? Has Christ led us into sin? Of course not!
Romans 6:1
- Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more kindness and forgiveness?
- Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?
Galatians 2:15
- You and I are Jews by birth, not 'sinners' like the Gentiles.
Romans 11:7
- So this is the situation: Most of the Jews have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have--the ones God has chosen--but the rest were made unresponsive.
Romans 3:4
- Of course not! Though everyone else in the world is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say, "He will be proved right in what he says, and he will win his case in court."
Hebrews 7:24
- But Jesus remains a priest forever; his priesthood will never end.
- Therefore he is able, once and forever, to save everyone who comes to God through him. He lives forever to plead with God on their behalf.
- He is the kind of high priest we need because he is holy and blameless, unstained by sin. He has now been set apart from sinners, and he has been given the highest place of honor in heaven.
- He does not need to offer sacrifices every day like the other high priests. They did this for their own sins first and then for the sins of the people. But Jesus did this once for all when he sacrificed himself on the cross.
- Those who were high priests under the law of Moses were limited by human weakness. But after the law was given, God appointed his Son with an oath, and his Son has been made perfect forever.
Hebrews 8:2
- There he ministers in the sacred tent, the true place of worship that was built by the Lord and not by human hands.
1 John 3:8
- But when people keep on sinning, it shows they belong to the Devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy these works of the Devil.
- Those who have been born into God's family do not sin, because God's life is in them. So they can't keep on sinning, because they have been born of God.
- So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the Devil. Anyone who does not obey God's commands and does not love other Christians does not belong to God.
Romans 3:6
- Of course not! If God is not just, how is he qualified to judge the world?
Galatians 3:21
- Well then, is there a conflict between God's law and God's promises? Absolutely not! If the law could have given us new life, we could have been made right with God by obeying it.
Romans 15:8
- Remember that Christ came as a servant to the Jews to show that God is true to the promises he made to their ancestors.
Romans 9:30
- Well then, what shall we say about these things? Just this: The Gentiles have been made right with God by faith, even though they were not seeking him.
- But the Jews, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.
- Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law and being good instead of by depending on faith. They stumbled over the great rock in their path.
- God warned them of this in the Scriptures when he said, "I am placing a stone in Jerusalem that causes people to stumble, and a rock that makes them fall. But anyone who believes in him will not be disappointed. "
Galatians 2:11
- But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him publicly, speaking strongly against what he was doing, for it was very wrong.
2 Corinthians 3:7
- That old system of law etched in stone led to death, yet it began with such glory that the people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses' face. For his face shone with the glory of God, even though the brightness was already fading away.
- Shouldn't we expect far greater glory when the Holy Spirit is giving life?
- If the old covenant, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new covenant, which makes us right with God!
Matthew 1:21
- And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."
1 John 3:5
- And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, for there is no sin in him.