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Galatians 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

KJV

εἰδότες δὲ ὅτι οὐ δικαιοῦται ἄνθρωπος ἐξ ἔργων νόμου ἐὰν μὴ διὰ πίστεως Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ, καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐπιστεύσαμεν, ἵνα δικαιωθῶμεν ἐκ πίστεως Χριστοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων νόμου, ὅτι ἐξ ἔργων νόμου οὐ δικαιωθήσεται πᾶσα σάρξ.

Greek NT

Scientes autem quod non justificatur homo ex operibus legis, nisi per fidem Jesu Christi : et nos in Christo Jesu credimus, ut justificemur ex fide Christi, et non ex operibus legis : propter quod ex operibus legis non justificabitur omnis caro.

Vulgate

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

ASV

But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

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In the original Greek

22 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
δικαιόω
dikaioo
verb · 39×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἴδω
eido
verb · 317×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πίστις
pistis
noun · 243×
πιστεύω
pisteuo
verb · 241×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σάρξ
sarx
noun · 147×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἔργον
ergon
noun · 169×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: δὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: δὲ
  • δὲ — SBLGNT
  • δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ | NIV/RP: Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ | WH/Treg: Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ
  • Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ — SBLGNT
  • Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ὅτι ἐξ ἔργων νόμου οὐ δικαιωθήσεται | WH/Treg/NIV: ὅτι ἐξ ἔργων νόμου οὐ δικαιωθήσεται | RP: διότι οὐ δικαιωθήσεται ἐξ ἔργων νόμου
  • ὅτι ἐξ ἔργων νόμου οὐ δικαιωθήσεται — SBLGNT
  • ὅτι ἐξ ἔργων νόμου οὐ δικαιωθήσεται — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • διότι οὐ δικαιωθήσεται ἐξ ἔργων νόμου — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

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Historic Christian voices

16 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by faith only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Calvin shows that Paul's conclusion is devastating: there is none righteous, no not one. The advantage of the Jew lay in having the oracles of God, but this did not exempt them from condemnation. By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified, for the law is a mirror that shows sin, not a ladder to climb to righteous…
The words of the law are spoken not to affirm the power of the will, but to enlighten blind reason, so that it may see that its own light is nothing and that the power of the will is nothing. "By the law is the knowledge of sin," says Paul. He does not say "the abolition of sin" or "the power for righteousness." The entire function and power of the law is only to give knowledge…
The Epistle to the Galatians is my own epistle. I have betrothed myself to it. It is my wife. The argument of the Epistle is this: Paul establishes the doctrine of faith, grace, forgiveness of sins, and Christian righteousness, so that we may have a perfect knowledge and distinction between Christian righteousness and all other kinds of righteousness. There is a political right…
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. This is the true mean of becoming a Christian, to be justified by faith in Jesus Christ, and not by the works of the law. Here we must stand, not upon the ground of our own righteousness, but upon the ground of Jesus Christ's righteousness, which He freely gives to us through faith. I…
'Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.' See Gal. ii. 16. This is the chief article of all Christian doctrine. It is the sun that illuminates God's holy Church. Without this article the world is nothing but darkness and death. If this article stands, the Church stands; if it falls, the Church falls. Against this article al…
He that believes the Gospel shall be saved; he that believes not shall be damned. In the Gospel one learns that human doctrines and decrees do not aid in salvation. That Christ has suffered for us and is our only merit — whoever attributes to works what is Christ's dishonors God.
Q. How are you right with God? A. Only by true faith in Jesus Christ. Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all God's commandments and of never having kept any of them, and even though I am still inclined toward all evil, nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, ri…
The Synod rejects the errors of those who teach that what is involved in the new covenant of grace which God the Father made with humanity through the intervening death of Christ is not that we are justified before God and saved through faith, insofar as it accepts the merits of Christ, but rather that God, having withdrawn his demand for perfect obedience to the law, counts fa…
We believe that for us to acquire the true knowledge of this great mystery the Holy Spirit kindles in our hearts a true faith that embraces Jesus Christ, with all his merits, and makes him its own, and no longer looks for anything apart from him. For it must necessarily follow that either all that is required for our salvation is not in Christ or, if all is in him, then those w…
We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by faith, only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort.
The longest and most important article of the Apology. Melanchthon defends the Reformation teaching that sinners are justified freely by grace through faith in Christ, apart from works of the Law. Faith is not merely knowledge but trust (fiducia) in God's promise of mercy for Christ's sake. Justification is forensic — God declares the sinner righteous by imputing Christ's right…
We believe that the great gospel blessing which Christ secures to such as believe in Him is justification; that justification includes the pardon of sin, and the promise of eternal life on principles of righteousness; that it is bestowed not in consideration of any works of righteousness which we have done, but solely through faith in the Redeemer's blood; by virtue of which fa…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:11 — And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
  • 1Cor 6:11 — And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
  • 1John 1:7 — But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
  • 1John 2:1 — My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
  • 1Pet 1:8 — Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
  • 1Pet 1:18 — Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
  • 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  • 1Pet 3:18 — For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
  • 1Tim 2:7 — Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
  • 2Cor 5:19 — To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
  • 2Pet 1:1 — Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
  • Acts 13:38 — Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
  • Acts 13:39 — And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Acts 15:11 — But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
  • Acts 24:24 — And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
  • Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Gal 2:20 — I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself fo
  • Gal 2:21 — I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
  • Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • Gal 3:11 — But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
  • Gal 3:22 — But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
  • Gal 3:24 — Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  • Gal 5:4 — Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
  • Hab 2:4 — Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
  • Heb 7:18 — For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
  • Job 9:2 — I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
  • Job 25:4 — How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
  • John 3:15 — That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • Luke 10:25 — And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
  • Luke 18:14 — I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
  • Phil 3:9 — And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
  • Phil 3:9 — And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
  • Ps 143:2 — And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
  • Ps 143:2 — And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
  • Rev 7:9 — After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robe
  • Rom 1:17 — For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
  • Rom 2:12 — For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
  • Rom 2:13 — (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
  • Rom 3:19 — Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.