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Galatians 2

Gal. 2:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But
de (Greek #1161)
but, and, etc.
KJV usage: also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Pronounce: deh
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
if
ei (Greek #1487)
if, whether, that, etc.
KJV usage: forasmuch as, if, that, (al-)though, whether. Often used in connection or composition with other particles, especially as in 1489, 1490, 1499, 1508, 1509, 1512, 1513, 1536, 1537. See also 1437.
Pronounce: i
Origin: a primary particle of conditionality
, while we seek
zeteo (Greek #2212)
to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life)
KJV usage: be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means). Compare 4441.
Pronounce: dzay-teh'-o
Origin: of uncertain affinity
to be justified
dikaioo (Greek #1344)
to render (i.e. show or regard as) just or innocent
KJV usage: free, justify(-ier), be righteous.
Pronounce: dik-ah-yo'-o
Origin: from 1342
by
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
Christ
Christos (Greek #5547)
anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
KJV usage: Christ.
Pronounce: khris-tos'
Origin: from 5548
, we ourselves
autos (Greek #846)
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
KJV usage: her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
Pronounce: ow-tos'
Origin: from the particle αὖ (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward)
g also
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
are found
heurisko (Greek #2147)
εὕρω (hyoo'-ro), which (together with another cognate form) εὑρέω (hyoo-reh'-o) is used for it in all the tenses except the present and imperfect to find (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: find, get, obtain, perceive, see.
Pronounce: hyoo-ris'-ko
sinners
hamartolos (Greek #268)
sinful, i.e. a sinner
KJV usage: sinful, sinner.
Pronounce: ham-ar-to-los'
Origin: from 264
, is therefore
ara (Greek #687)
a form of 686, denoting an interrogation to which a negative answer is presumed
KJV usage: therefore.
Pronounce: ar'-ah
Christ
Christos (Greek #5547)
anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
KJV usage: Christ.
Pronounce: khris-tos'
Origin: from 5548
the minister
diakonos (Greek #1249)
an attendant, i.e. (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); specially, a Christian teacher and pastor (technically, a deacon or deaconess)
KJV usage: deacon, minister, servant.
Pronounce: dee-ak'-on-os
Origin: probably from an obsolete διάκω (to run on errands; compare 1377)
of sin
hamartia (Greek #266)
a sin (properly abstract)
KJV usage: offence, sin(-ful).
Pronounce: ham-ar-tee'-ah
Origin: from 264
? God forbid
me (Greek #3361)
(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas 3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
KJV usage: any but (that), X forbear, + God forbid, + lack, lest, neither, never, no (X wise in), none, nor, (can-)not, nothing, that not, un(-taken), without. Often used in compounds in substantially the same relations. See also 3362, 3363, 3364, 3372, 3373, 3375, 3378.
Pronounce: may
Origin: a primary particle of qualified negation (whereas 3756 expresses an absolute denial)
ginomai (Greek #1096)
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
KJV usage: arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Pronounce: ghin'-om-ahee
Origin: a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb
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1 John 3:9‑10• 9Every one that hath been born of God doeth not sin, because his seed abideth in him; and he cannot sin, because he hath been begotten of God.
 10Herein are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil: every one that doeth not righteousness is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother. (1 John 3:9‑10)

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Rom. 9:30‑33• 30What then shall we say? That Gentiles which followed not after righteousness obtained righteousness, even [the] righteousness that is by faith;
 31but Israel following after a law of righteousness attained not unto a law of righteousness.
 32Why? Because not by faith but as by works [of law], for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,
 33even as it is written, “Behold I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; and he that believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” (Rom. 9:30‑33)
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Rom. 11:7• 7What then? That which Israel seeketh after, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained [it]; but the rest were hardened, (Rom. 11:7)
are found.
Gal. 2:11• 11But when Cephas came unto Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was self-condemned; (Gal. 2:11)
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Rom. 6:1‑2• 1What then shall we say? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
 2Let it not be. We which died to sin, how shall we live any longer in it? (Rom. 6:1‑2)
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1 John 3:8‑10• 8He that doeth sin is of the devil, for from [the] beginning the devil sinneth. To this end was manifested the Son of God that he might undo the works of the devil.
 9Every one that hath been born of God doeth not sin, because his seed abideth in him; and he cannot sin, because he hath been begotten of God.
 10Herein are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil: every one that doeth not righteousness is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother. (1 John 3:8‑10)
is.
Matt. 1:21• 21{i}And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.{/i} (Matt. 1:21)
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Rom. 15:8• 8For I say that Christ became a minister of [the] circumcision for God's truth to confirm the promises of the fathers; (Rom. 15:8)
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2 Cor. 3:7‑9• 7(But if the ministry of death in letter, graven on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently toward the face of Moses for the glory of his face, that was to be done away,
 8how shall not the ministry of the Spirit rather be in glory?
 9For if the ministry of condemnation [have] glory, much more doth the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. (2 Cor. 3:7‑9)
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Heb. 7:24‑28• 24but he because of his abiding forever hath the priesthood untransferable.
 25Whence also he is able to save completely those that approach God through him, as ever living to intercede for them.
 26For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens,
 27who hath no need day by day as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then [for] those of the people; for this he did once for all when he offered up himself.
 28For the law constituteth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath-swearing that [was] after the law, a Son perfected forever. (Heb. 7:24‑28)
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Heb. 8:2• 2minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man. (Heb. 8:2)
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1 John 3:5• 5And ye know that he was manifested that he might take away our sins; and in him is no sin. (1 John 3:5)
God.
Rom. 3:4,6• 4Let it not be, but let God be true and every man false, even as it is written, “That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and overcome when thou art judged.”
 6Let it not be: since how shall God judge the world? (Rom. 3:4,6)
• As it was Christ who led them to do this, He was become the minister of sin. That was a conclusion that I am sure Peter shrank from with horror, but he had to face it If he was wrong in eating with the Gentiles, he certainly did it by the Lord’s direct command, given to him in the vision he got in Acts 10.  If he was wrong therein, Christ it was who had instructed him to do wrong. If, on the other hand, he was right then, he was wrong now, and had become a transgressor. (“Withstood at Antioch” by W.T.P. Wolston)
• For in rebuilding the edifice of the law, they made it evident that they ought not to have overthrown it; and it was Christ who made them do so. (“Galatians 1-2” by J.N. Darby)
• If he was right in turning back to law, then Christ had led him to do wrong in giving it up. This was impossible. (“Galatians 2” by H. Smith)
• If, then, he was right in giving up the law as a means of justification, he was clearly wrong in turning back to it. But it was for Christ's sake that he had given up the law. If he was right in turning back to law, then Christ had led him to do wrong in giving it up. This was impossible; for Christ cannot lead a man to do wrong-He is not a minister of sin. (“Galatians 2” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Now if in seeking to be justified in Christ we also have been found sinners, then is Christ minister of sin? Far be the thought.

W. Kelly Translation

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But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, ourselves also were found sinners, then is Christ minister of sin. Let it not be.