Galatians 2:15 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Galatians 2:15

13 And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about ^athe truth of the gospel, I said to Peter ^bbefore them all, ^c“If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews,¹ why do you compel Gentiles to live as² Jews?

15 ^aWe who are Jews by nature, and not ^bsinners of the Gentiles,

16 ^aknowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but ^bby faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not ^cby the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

17 “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found ^asinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!

18 For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

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Connect these verses together, and read with most of the oldest manuscripts "But" in the beginning of Galatians 2:16 : "We (I and thou, Peter) by nature (not by proselytism), Jews, and not sinners as (Jewish language termed the Gentiles) from among the Gentiles, YET (literally, 'BUT') knowing that . . . even we (resuming the 'we' of Galatians 2:15, 'we also,' as well as the Gentile sinners; casting away trust in the law), have believed," etc.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Galatians 2:15:

Song of Solomon 8:9
Galatians 1:2
Galatians 2:15-16
Galatians 2:17
Revelation 3:7

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