The Frustration of God's Grace
Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.


If people can make themselves good by doing what is called their duty, then the incarnation, the crucifixion, the resurrection, and the ascension of Jesus Christ constitute the greatest mistake that ever was made in the universe. If a man can be really good, can make himself all that God can possibly desire him to be, of his own motion and will and by the resources of his own invention and energy, then the mediation of Jesus Christ was a great and generous expenditure of pain and life and sorrow, and an expenditure that ended in nothing.

(J. Parker, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

WEB: I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"




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