Galatians 2:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners””
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BSBPD
“We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Galatians 2:15 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 15:18and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’
- Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- Matthew 9:11When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
- Mark 7:26Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
- John 8:39“Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.
- Acts 22:21Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
- Romans 3:9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
- Romans 4:16Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
- Ephesians 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- Ephesians 2:11Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
- Philippians 3:4though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
- Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
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