Galatians 5:7
You did run well, who hath hindered you, that you should not obey the truth?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
In Context
8This persuasion is not from him that calleth you.
Cross References
Acts 6:7And the word of the Lord increased; and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly: a great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.
Romans 6:17But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine, into which you have been delivered.
Romans 15:18For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
1 Corinthians 9:24Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize ? So run that you may obtain.
Galatians 3:1O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you?
Hebrews 5:9And being consummated, he became, to all that obey 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 →