Galatians 5:4
You have severed yourselves from Christ — you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
3I again declare to every one who receives circumcision, that he binds himself to obey the whole Law.
Cross References
Romans 4:4Now wages are regarded as due to the man who works, not as a favour, but as a debt;
Romans 10:3for, in their ignorance of the Divine Righteousness, and in their eagerness to set up a righteousness of their own, they refused to accept with submission the Divine Righteousness.
Galatians 1:6I am astonished at your so soon deserting him, who called you through the love of Christ, for a different ‘Good News,’
Galatians 5:2Understand that I, Paul, myself tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will avail you nothing.
Hebrews 10:38And through faith the Righteous man shall find his Life, But, if a man draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in him.’
2 Peter 2:20If, after having escaped the polluting influences of the world, through knowing our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them, and give way to them, their last state has become worse than their 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 →