Galatians 5:2
Understand that I, Paul, myself tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will avail you nothing.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
In Context
3I again declare to every one who receives circumcision, that he binds himself to obey the whole Law.
Cross References
Acts 15:24As we had heard that some of our number had upset you by their assertions, and unsettled your minds — without instructions from us —
Romans 9:31while Israel, which was in search of a Law which would ensure righteousness, failed to discover one.
1 Corinthians 16:21I, Paul, add this greeting in my own handwriting.
Galatians 2:3Yet even my companion, Titus, though a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised.
Galatians 5:6If a man is in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything.
1 Thessalonians 2:18That was why we made up our minds to go and see you — at least I, Paul, did, more than once — but Satan put difficulties in our way.
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 →