Galatians 5:2
Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
In Context
3I testify indeed again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to do the whole law.
Cross References
Acts 15:24Inasmuch as we have heard that certain persons went out from us and troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, That you must be circumcised, and keep the law, to whom we gave no commandment,
Romans 9:31but Israel, who sought after a law of justification, has not attained to a law of justification.
1 Corinthians 16:21The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand.
Galatians 2:3But not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
Galatians 5:6For, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith that works by love.
1 Thessalonians 2:18For this reason, we intended to go to you, (I Paul) both once and again, but Satan hindered us.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 5:2-13
Exhortation to Stedfastness; Persuasives to Stedfastness. ( a. d. 56.) 1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5 For we through the… Read the whole commentary →