Misinterpretations often twist this verse to promote antinomianism, claiming it abolishes all moral law and permits sin without consequence under grace, ignoring Paul's distinction between justification (by faith alone) and sanctification (producing obedience); others erroneously see it as devaluing the law's role in revealing sin and guiding believers, or as Paul rejecting his Jewish heritage entirely, rather than critiquing legalism for salvation.
Galatians 2:21
King James Version (1769)
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Paul affirms that he does not reject or undermine God's grace by pursuing righteousness through the law, as that would render Christ's death pointless; the core truth is that true righteousness and justification before God come solely by grace through faith in Christ's atoning sacrifice, not by human efforts to keep the law, emphasizing the sufficiency and centrality of the gospel for salvation.