Galatians 2:16 Cross References

Galatians 2:16

16: And yet we Jewish Christians know that we become right with God, not by doing what the law commands, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted by God because of our faith in Christ--and not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be saved by obeying the law."

Philippians 3:9

  1. and become one with him. I no longer count on my own goodness or my ability to obey God's law, but I trust Christ to save me. For God's way of making us right with himself depends on faith.

Romans 9:30

  1. 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.

Romans 3:19

  1. Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses and to bring the entire world into judgment before God.
  2. For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.
  3. But now God has shown us a different way of being right in his sight--not by obeying the law but by the way promised in the Scriptures long ago.
  4. We are made right in God's sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done.
  5. For all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious standard.

Psalms 143:2

  1. Don't bring your servant to trial! Compared to you, no one is perfect.

Romans 4:2

  1. Was it because of his good deeds that God accepted him? If so, he would have had something to boast about. But from God's point of view Abraham had no basis at all for pride.

1 Peter 1:18

  1. For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver.
  2. He paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
  3. God chose him for this purpose long before the world began, but now in these final days, he was sent to the earth for all to see. And he did this for you.
  4. Through Christ you have come to trust in God. And because God raised Christ from the dead and gave him great glory, your faith and hope can be placed confidently in God.

1 John 2:1

  1. My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if you do sin, there is someone to plead for you before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who pleases God completely.
  2. He is the sacrifice for our sins. He takes away not only our sins but the sins of all the world.

1 Peter 3:18

  1. Christ also suffered when he died for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners that he might bring us safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit.

Romans 4:5

  1. But people are declared righteous because of their faith, not because of their work.
  2. King David spoke of this, describing the happiness of an undeserving sinner who is declared to be righteous:

Acts 13:38

  1. "Brothers, listen! In this man Jesus there is forgiveness for your sins.
  2. Everyone who believes in him is freed from all guilt and declared right with God--something the Jewish law could never do.

1 Peter 2:24

  1. He personally carried away our sins in his own body on the cross so we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. You have been healed by his wounds!

Hebrews 7:18

  1. Yes, the old requirement about the priesthood was set aside because it was weak and useless.
  2. For the law made nothing perfect, and now a better hope has taken its place. And that is how we draw near to God.

Romans 3:30

  1. There is only one God, and there is only one way of being accepted by him. He makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.

1 John 1:7

  1. But if we are living in the light of God's presence, just as Christ is, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from every sin.

Romans 1:17

  1. This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."

Romans 4:13

  1. It is clear, then, that God's promise to give the whole earth to Abraham and his descendants was not based on obedience to God's law, but on the new relationship with God that comes by faith.
  2. So if you claim that God's promise is for those who obey God's law and think they are "good enough" in God's sight, then you are saying that faith is useless. And in that case, the promise is also meaningless.
  3. But the law brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)

1 Peter 1:8

  1. You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him, you trust him; and even now you are happy with a glorious, inexpressible joy.
  2. Your reward for trusting him will be the salvation of your souls.

Job 9:2

  1. "Yes, I know this is all true in principle. But how can a person be declared innocent in the eyes of God?
  2. If someone wanted to take God to court, would it be possible to answer him even once in a thousand times?

Job 25:4

  1. How can a mere mortal stand before God and claim to be righteous? Who in all the earth is pure?

Galatians 3:22

  1. But the Scriptures have declared that we are all prisoners of sin, so the only way to receive God's promise is to believe in Jesus Christ.
  2. Until faith in Christ was shown to us as the way of becoming right with God, we were guarded by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until we could put our faith in the coming Savior.
  3. Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian and teacher to lead us until Christ came. So now, through faith in Christ, we are made right with God.

Job 9:29

  1. Whatever happens, I will be found guilty. So what's the use of trying?

Revelation 7:14

  1. And I said to him, "Sir, you are the one who knows." Then he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.

Galatians 4:5

  1. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.

Revelation 7:9

  1. After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white and held palm branches in their hands.

Galatians 5:4

  1. For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace.

2 Peter 1:1

  1. This letter is from Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ. I am writing to all of you who share the same precious faith we have, faith given to us by Jesus Christ, our God and Savior, who makes us right with God.

1 Peter 1:2

  1. God the Father chose you long ago, and the Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed Jesus Christ and are cleansed by his blood. May you have more and more of God's special favor and wonderful peace.

Romans 8:3

  1. The law of Moses could not save us, because of our sinful nature. But God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent his own Son in a human body like ours, except that ours are sinful. God destroyed sin's control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.

Romans 8:30

  1. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And he gave them right standing with himself, and he promised them his glory.
  2. What can we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
  3. Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?
  4. Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us right standing with himself.
  5. Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for he is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us.

Acts 4:12

  1. There is salvation in no one else! There is no other name in all of heaven for people to call on to save them."

Galatians 2:19

  1. For when I tried to keep the law, I realized I could never earn God's approval. So I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ.
  2. I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me. So I live my life in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Corinthians 6:11

  1. There was a time when some of you were just like that, but now your sins have been washed away, and you have been set apart for God. You have been made right with God because of what the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God have done for you.

Romans 5:8

  1. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
  2. And since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God's judgment.

John 6:68

  1. Simon Peter replied, "Lord, to whom would we go? You alone have the words that give eternal life.
  2. We believe them, and we know you are the Holy One of God."

Luke 10:25

  1. One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: "Teacher, what must I do to receive eternal life?"
  2. Jesus replied, "What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?"
  3. The man answered, "'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.' And, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
  4. "Right!" Jesus told him. "Do this and you will live!"
  5. The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

Psalms 130:3

  1. LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive?
  2. But you offer forgiveness, that we might learn to fear you.

Galatians 3:10

  1. But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all these commands that are written in God's Book of the Law."
  2. Consequently, it is clear that no one can ever be right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."
  3. How different from this way of faith is the way of law, which says, "If you wish to find life by obeying the law, you must obey all of its commands."
  4. But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."
  5. Through the work of Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, and we Christians receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.

Romans 4:24

  1. It was for us, too, assuring us that God will also declare us to be righteous if we believe in God, who brought Jesus our Lord back from the dead.
  2. He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised from the dead to make us right with God.
  3. Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
  4. Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God's glory.

John 20:31

  1. But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life.

2 Corinthians 5:19

  1. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others.
  2. We are Christ's ambassadors, and God is using us to speak to you. We urge you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, "Be reconciled to God!"
  3. For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
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