Galatians 5:4
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
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In Context
3Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
5For we through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
Cross References
Romans 4:4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
Romans 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Galatians 1:6I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,
Galatians 5:2Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Hebrews 10:38But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
2 Peter 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the 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 →