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NASB | James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it. |
Bible Question:
Don't we also see the Galatians attempting to use the Law for sanctification as well? Gal 3:3 would seem to point this way. Steve |
Bible Answer: Perhaps, which is also in error. We are not sanctified by the Law any more than we are justififed by it. Sanctification is a work of God's free grace. However, those being sanctified will exhibit the moral behavior prescribed in the Law in their conduct. The horse is sanctification by the Spirit. The cart is God-pleasing works. The Galatians were getting things backwards. One must also fully take into account what Paul was arguing against here. He was not challenging the idea that Christians should do SOME things which are found in the Law. What the Galatians were falling into was the complete external trappings of the Law and its regulations. Notice again that Paul does not tell the Galatians that the prohibition on murder, covetousness, lying, and adultery are invalid for believers. What he challenges is that the Law itself is a means to attaining a righteousness of our own either in addition to or apart from Christ's work of atonement. --Joe! |