Galatians 2:15

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Summary

Galatians 2:15

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

Jews

Sinners

General references

Romans 3:30

Galatians 2:18

Philippians 3:7

Bible References

Jews

But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

They answered him, "Abraham is our father." "If you are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then do as Abraham did;

That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham ??of Abraham who is the father of us all

among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

Sinners

So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"

(the woman was a pagan, of Syrophoenician birth) begging him to cast the daemon out of her daughter.

But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"

Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin ??10 as it is written, None is righteous, no, not one;

Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh ??12 remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

General references

Well then, there is one God, a God who will justify the circumcised as they believe and the uncircumcised on the score of faith.

I really convict myself of transgression when I rebuild what I destroyed.

But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss;