Galatians 5:4
You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.
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5For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
Cross References
Romans 4:4Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.
Romans 10:3Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
Galatians 1:6I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;
Galatians 5:2See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.
Hebrews 10:38But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
2 Peter 2:20For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.
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 →