Galatians 5:7
You were running well; who kept you back from obedience to the truth?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
In Context
8This readiness to be persuaded is not from him that calls you.
Cross References
Acts 6:7And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was greatly multiplied; and a great multitude of the priests became obedient to the faith.
Romans 6:17But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed;
Romans 15:18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, by word and deed, in order to make the Gentiles obedient,
1 Corinthians 9:24Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.
Galatians 3:1O thoughtless Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been plainly set forth crucified?
Hebrews 5:9and, having been made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all that obey him,
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 →