Galatians 5:4
Ye have renounced the Messiah, ye who seek justification by the law: and ye have apostatized from grace.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
5For we, through the Spirit, which is from faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
Cross References
Romans 4:4But to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as a debt to him.
Romans 10:3For they know not the righteousness of God, but seek to establish their own righteousness: and therefore they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
Galatians 1:6I admire, how soon ye have turned from the Messiah, who called you by his grace, unto another gospel;
Galatians 5:2Behold, I Paul say to you, That if ye become circumcised, the Messiah is of no advantage to you.
Hebrews 10:38Now the just by my faith, will live: but if he draw back, my soul will not have pleasure in him.
2 Peter 2:20For if, when they have escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus the Messiah, they become again involved in the same, and are vanquished, their latter state is worse than the former.
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 →