Galatians 5:7
You have run well. So what has impeded you, that you would not obey the truth?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
In Context
8This kind of influence is not from him who is calling you.
Cross References
Acts 6:7And the Word of the Lord was increasing, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem was multiplied exceedingly. And even a large group of the priests were obedient to the faith.
Romans 6:17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be the servants of sin, now you have been obedient from the heart to the very form of the doctrine into which you have been received.
Romans 15:18So I dare not speak of any of those things which Christ does not effect through me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and deed,
1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that, of those who run in a race, all of them, certainly, are runners, but only one achieves the prize. Similarly, you must run, so that you may achieve.
Galatians 3:1O senseless Galatians, who has so fascinated you that you would not obey the truth, even though Jesus Christ has been presented before your eyes, crucified among you?
Hebrews 5:9And having reached his consummation, he was made, for all who are obedient to him, the cause of eternal salvation,
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 →