Galatians 5:7
You were running well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
In Context
8The persuasion is not of the one calling you.
Cross References
Acts 6:7And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied exceedingly in Jerusalem, and a great multitude of the priests were obedient unto the faith.
Romans 6:17But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered:
Romans 15:18for I will not dare to speak anything save those things which Christ has wrought through me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and deed,
1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.
Galatians 3:1O foolish Galatians, who has been bewitching you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was set forth having been crucified?
Hebrews 5:9and having been made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all those who obey him;
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 →