Galatians 2:18

"But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!"

Key Reflection

In Galatians 2:18, Paul grapples with the profound reality that even as believers seek to be justified through faith in Christ, they are still recognized as sinners in God's sight. This realization challenges the notion that Jesus might serve or condone sin; yet Paul emphatically affirms that this is not the case, reinforcing the belief that Christ’s mission and sacrifice address human sinfulness without endorsing it.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 18. For if I build again the things which I destroyed. Paul here uses the first person; but he evidently intends it as a general proposition, and means that if any one does it he becomes a transgressor. The sense is, that if a man, having removed or destroyed that which was evil, again introduces it or establishes it, he does wrong, and is a transgressor of the law of God. The particular application here, as it seems to me, is to the subject of circumcision, and the other rites of the Mosaic law. They had been virtually abolished by the coming of the Redeemer, and by the doctrine of justification by faith.

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