Galatians 3:21 Cross References

Galatians 3:21

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.

Galatians 2:21

  1. I am not one of those who treats the grace of God as meaningless. For if we could be saved by keeping the law, then there was no need for Christ to die.

Romans 3:20

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

Romans 9:31

  1. But the Jews, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.

Romans 10:3

  1. For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They won't go along with God's way.
  2. For Christ has accomplished the whole purpose of the law. All who believe in him are made right with God.
  3. For Moses wrote that the law's way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands.
  4. But the way of getting right with God through faith says, "You don't need to go to heaven" (to find Christ and bring him down to help you).

Romans 7:7

  1. Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is evil? Of course not! The law is not sinful, but it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
  2. But sin took advantage of this law and aroused all kinds of forbidden desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
  3. I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.
  4. So the good law, which was supposed to show me the way of life, instead gave me the death penalty.
  5. Sin took advantage of the law and fooled me; it took the good law and used it to make me guilty of death.

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.

Galatians 2:17

  1. 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 3:4

  1. 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."

Romans 3:31

  1. Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.

Romans 3:6

  1. Of course not! If God is not just, how is he qualified to judge the world?

Philippians 3:6

  1. And zealous? Yes, in fact, I harshly persecuted the church. And I obeyed the Jewish law so carefully that I was never accused of any fault.
  2. I once thought all these things were so very important, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.
  3. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I may have Christ
  4. 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.

Matthew 5:17

  1. "Don't misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to fulfill them.
  2. I assure you, until heaven and earth disappear, even the smallest detail of God's law will remain until its purpose is achieved.
  3. So if you break the smallest commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God's laws and teaches them will be great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  4. "But I warn you--unless you obey God better than the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees do, you can't enter the Kingdom of Heaven at all!

Hebrews 11:7

  1. It was by faith that Noah built an ark to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about something that had never happened before. By his faith he condemned the rest of the world and was made right in God's sight.
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