Galatians 2:21
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21 I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.
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Romans 11:6
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6 And since it is through God’s kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God’s grace would not be what it really is—free and undeserved.
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Galatians 3:21
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21 Is there a conflict, then, between God’s law and God’s promises?[a] Absolutely not! If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it.
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- 3:21 Some manuscripts read and the promises?
Hebrews 7:11
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11 So if the priesthood of Levi, on which the law was based, could have achieved the perfection God intended, why did God need to establish a different priesthood, with a priest in the order of Melchizedek instead of the order of Levi and Aaron?[a]
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- 7:11 Greek the order of Aaron?
1 Corinthians 15:14
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14 And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless.
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Galatians 5:2-4
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2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3 I’ll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey every regulation in the whole law of Moses. 4 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.
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Galatians 2:16
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16 Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.”[a]
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- 2:16 Some translators hold that the quotation extends through verse 14; others through verse 16; and still others through verse 21.
Romans 10:3
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3 For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.
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Isaiah 49:4
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4 I replied, “But my work seems so useless!
I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose.
Yet I leave it all in the Lord’s hand;
I will trust God for my reward.”
1 Corinthians 15:2
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2 It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.[a]
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- 15:2 Or unless you never believed it in the first place.
Galatians 2:18
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18 Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down.
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Romans 8:31
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Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
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Mark 7:9
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9 Then he said, “You skillfully sidestep God’s law in order to hold on to your own tradition.
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1 Corinthians 15:17
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17 And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins.
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Psalm 33:10
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10 The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations
and thwarts all their schemes.
Jeremiah 8:8
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8 “‘How can you say, “We are wise because we have the word of the Lord,”
when your teachers have twisted it by writing lies?
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