Galatians 5:11
And I, my brethren, if I still preached circumcision, why should I suffer persecution? Hath the offensiveness of the cross ceased?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
12But I would, that they who disquiet you, were actually cut off.
Cross References
Acts 16:3Him Paul was disposed to take with him: and he took him, and circumcised him, because of the Jews that were in that region; for they all knew that his father was a Gentile.
Acts 21:28crying out and saying: Men, sons of Israel; help. This is the man, who teacheth in every place, against our people, and against the law, and against this place; and he hath also brought Gentiles into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
Acts 23:13And they who had established this compact by oath, were more than forty persons.
1 Corinthians 1:18For a discourse concerning the cross is, to them who perish, foolishness; but to us who live, it is the energy of God.
1 Corinthians 15:30And why also do we stand every hour in peril?
Galatians 2:3Also Titus, who was with me, and was a Gentile, was not 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 →