Galatians 2:14-21 NASB

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Galatians 2:21

I do not frustrate the grace of God ,.... Or "cast it away", as the Vulgate Latin version reads it; or "deny it", as the Syriac and Arabic; or "despise, reject, and make it void", as other versions; meaning either the grace of the Son of God in giving himself for him, just mentioned by him; or the particular doctrine of grace, justification, he is speaking of, as proceeding from the grace of God, upon the foot of the righteousness of Christ; or the whole Gospel, all and each of which would... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:14

That they walked not uprightly - Ουκ ορθοποδουσι· They did not walk with a straight step - they did not maintain a firm footing. According to the truth of the Gospel - According to that true doctrine, which states that Christ is the end of the law for justification to every one that believes; and that such are under no obligation to observe circumcision and the other peculiar rites and ceremonies of the law. If thou, being a Jew, livest - This was a cutting reproof. He was a Jew,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:15

We who are Jews by nature - We who belong to the Jewish nation - who have been born, bred, and educated Jews. And not sinners of the Gentiles - Ἁμαρτωλοι· Not without the knowledge of God, as they have been. Ἁμαρτωλος often signifies a heathen, merely one who had no knowledge of the true God. But among the nations or Gentiles many Jews sojourned; who in Scripture are known by the name of Hellenists, and these were distinguished from those who were termed εξ εθνων ἁμαρτωλοι ,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified - See the notes on Romans 1:17 ; Romans 3:24 ; (note), Romans 3:27 ; (note); Romans 8:3 ; (note). And see on Acts 13:38 ; (note) and Acts 13:39 ; (note), in which places the subject of this verse is largely discussed. Neither the works of the Jewish law, nor of any other law, could justify any man; and if justification or pardon could not have been attained in some other way, the world must have perished. Justification by faith, in the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:17

But if while we seek to be justified - If, while we acknowledge that we must be justified by faith in Christ, we ourselves are found sinners, enjoining the necessity of observing the rites and ceremonies of the law, which never could and never can justify, and yet, by submitting to circumcision, we lay ourselves under the necessity of fulfilling the law, which is impossible, we thus constitute ourselves sinners; is, therefore, Christ the minister of sin? Christ, who has taught us to renounce... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:18

For if I build again the things which I destroyed - If I act like a Jew, and enjoin the observance of the law on the Gentiles, which I have repeatedly asserted and proved to be abolished by the death of Christ, then I build up what I destroyed, and thus make myself a transgressor, by not observing the law in that way in which I appear to enjoin the observance of it upon others. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:19

For I through the law am dead to the law - In consequence of properly considering the nature and requisitions of the law, I am dead to all hope and expectation of help or salvation from the law, and have been obliged to take refuge in the Gospel of Christ. Or, probably the word νομος , Law, is here put for a system of doctrine; as if he had said, I through the Gospel am dead to the law. The law itself is consigned to death, and another, the Gospel of Christ, is substituted in its stead.... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:20

I am crucified with Christ - The death of Christ on the cross has showed me that there is no hope of salvation by the law; I am therefore as truly dead to all expectation of justification by the law, as Christ was dead when he gave up the ghost upon the cross. Through him alone I live - enjoy a present life, and have a prospect of future glory. Yet not I - It is not of my natural life I speak, nor of any spiritual things which I myself have procured; but Christ liveth in me. God made man... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:21

I do not frustrate - Ουκ αθετω· I do not contemn, despise, or render useless, the grace of God - the doctrine of Christ crucified; which I must do if I preach the necessity of observing the law. For if righteousness - If justification and salvation come by an observance of the law, then Christ is dead in vain; his death is useless if an observance of the law can save us; but no observance of the law can save us, and therefore there was an absolute necessity for the death of Christ. ... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:14

Verse 14 14.But when I saw that they walked not uprightly. Some apply these words to the Gentiles, who, perplexed by Peter’s example, were beginning to give way; but it is more natural to understand them as referring to Peter and Barnabas, and their followers. The proper road to the truth of the gospel was, to unite the Gentiles with the Jews in such a manner that the true doctrine should not be injured. But to bind the consciences of godly men by an obligation to keep the law, and to bury in... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Galatians 2:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:21

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 2:14

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