Galatians 5:6
For, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith that works by love.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5For we, through the Spirit which we obtain by faith, wait for the hope of righteousness.
7You were running well; who kept you back from obedience to the truth?
Cross References
Matthew 25:31When the Son of man shall come in his own glory, and all the holy angels with him, then will he sit on the throne of his own glory;
Romans 2:25Now, circumcision is indeed profitable, if you keep the law: but, if you transgress the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
1 Corinthians 7:19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God is our aim.
Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondman nor freeman, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision is any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
1 Thessalonians 1:3remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:
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 →