...righteousness in the following tests means neither more nor less than justification. Gal. ii. 21 . ' If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.' Chap. iii. 21. ' If there had been a law which couUI have siven life, (spiritual life, or a title to...

...the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. 21. I do not frustrate the grace of God : for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." The force of this passage lies in the reality of the death that comes upon all, and the distinction...

...sin revived and Idied;"$ where the moral law exclusively is meant beyond all doubt: and he adds, " If righteousness come by the law, then " Christ is dead in vain;" which equally holds good of the moral as of the ritual law. — " As many as are of the " works of...

...mouth be stopped,' and that ' by the deeds of the law no flesh shall be justified in his sight,' and ' if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. — For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse. — And that no man is justified...

...God's anger, and commend yourself to him by these means, then you have no need of Christ; Gal. ii. 21. If righteousness come by the law, t.hen Christ is dead in vain. If you can do this by your prayers and good works, Christ might have spared his pains ; he might have...

...no effect ; which he would have done had he sought righteousness by the law : " for" (as he adds) " if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." * 3. Those also are liable to the charge of " receiving the grace of God in vain," who though they...

...they 'are all under sin. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Rom. iii. 9, 23. If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Gal. ii. 21 . Israel hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought...

...law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Rom. v. 12. 15. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin ; and so death...

...needs prove fatal to their hope of salvation ; because thereby they frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain. Gal. ii. 21. We are certainly bound to keep the moral law, and every infraction of that law is sin...

...God, we are indebted for the glorious Reformation from Popery, in his Comment on Gal. ii. 21, " For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain," has the following words : — " Is it true that Christ suffered death or not ! Did he suffer in vain...