Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. The rejection of the grace of God may take place(1) by a denial of the perfect satisfaction of Christ; (2) by setting alongside of it our own merits, worthiness and righteousness, as popery does in doctrine, and many Protestants do in fact; (3) by abusing this grace to favour presumption, and to supersede sanctification; (4) when even sincere souls, in the feeling of their unworthiness, are much too timorous to appropriate grace to themselves, and think they must first have arrived at this or that degree of holiness, before grace can avail them anything; (5) when tempted ones from a lack of feeling conclude that they have fallen out of grace again. (Starke.) Parallel Verses KJV: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. |
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