Galatians 2:15
13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
14 When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”
16 know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”
- KJV
- We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
- WEB
- “We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners,
- ASV
- We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
- DARBY
- We, Jews by nature, and not sinners of [the] nations,
- BLB
- We by nature Jews and not “sinners of the Gentiles,”
- ÅB
- Vi er jøder av fødsel og ikke syndere av hedensk slekt;
- OTB
- “Vi er jøder av fødsel og ikke syndige hedninger;
- B1930
- Vi er jøder av fødsel og ikke syndere av hedensk ætt;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 2:3
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
Read in contextTitus 3:3
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Read in contextRomans 3:9
What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
Read in contextEphesians 2:11–12
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
Read in contextPhilippians 3:4
though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
Read in contextRomans 4:16
Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
Read in contextJohn 8:39–41
“Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.
Read in contextMark 7:26–28
Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
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