Galatians 5:3
For I again testify, about every man circumcising himself, that he is obligated to act according to the entire law.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
In Context
2Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you have been circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
4You are being emptied of Christ, you who are being justified by the law. You have fallen from grace.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:26Cursed be he who does not remain in the words of this law, and does not carry them out in deed. And all the people shall say: Amen.”
Nehemiah 9:29And you contended with them, so that they might return to your law. Yet truly, they acted in arrogance, and they did not listen to your commandments, and they sinned against your judgments, which, if a man does them, he shall live by them. And they withdrew from offering their shoulder, and they hardened their neck; neither would they listen.
Matthew 23:16Woe to you, blind guides, who say: ‘Whoever will have sworn by the temple, it is nothing. But whoever will have sworn by the gold of the temple is obligated.’
Luke 16:28so that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torments.’
Acts 20:21testifying both to Jews and to Gentiles about repentance in God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it has been written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things that have been written in the book of the Law, so as to do them.”
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 →