Galatians 5:4
You have been divorced from Christ, whosoever are justified by law: you have fallen from grace.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
3And again I witness to every man who is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law.
5For we through the Spirit do await the hope of righteousness through faith.
Cross References
Romans 4:4But to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt;
Romans 10:3for being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
Galatians 1:6I am astonished that you are so quickly removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ into another gospel;
Galatians 5:2Behold I Paul say unto you, that, if you may be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Hebrews 10:38My righteous man shall live by faith: and if he may draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him.
2 Peter 2:20For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse 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 →