Galatians 5:11
But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? then the offence of the cross would be done away.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
12I would that those troubling you shall indeed cut themselves off.
Cross References
Acts 16:3Paul wished him to go out with him; and having taken him circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places: for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.
Acts 21:28Israelitish men, help: this is the man, teaching all everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and he has even yet led Greeks into the temple, and polluted this holy place.
Acts 23:13And there were more than forty having made this plot:
1 Corinthians 1:18For the word of the cross is foolishness indeed to those who are lost; but to those who are saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 15:30Why indeed are we in jeopardy every hour?
Galatians 2:3But neither was Titus the one with me, being a Greek, compelled to be circumcised:
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 →