Galatians 5:11
As for me, brethren, if I am still a preacher of circumcision, how is it that I am still suffering persecution? In that case the Cross has ceased to be a stumbling-block!
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
12Would to God that those who are unsettling your faith would even mutilate themselves.
Cross References
Acts 16:3and Paul desiring that he should accompany him on his journey, took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
Acts 21:28They laid hands on him, crying out, "Men of Israel, help! help! This is the man who goes everywhere preaching to everybody against the Jewish people and the Law and this place. And besides, he has even brought Gentiles into the Temple and has desecrated this holy place."
Acts 23:13There were more than forty of them who bound themselves by this oath.
1 Corinthians 1:18For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom He is saving.
1 Corinthians 15:30Why also do we Apostles expose ourselves to danger every hour?
Galatians 2:3But although my companion Titus was a Greek they did not insist upon even his being 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 →