Galatians 5:11
And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted by the Jews? for then the offence of the cross is ceased.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
12I wish they were even cut off from your communion, that make such disturbance amongst you.
Cross References
Acts 16:3wherefore Paul was desirous that he should go forth with him, and took and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
Acts 21:28this is the man that teaches all men every where against the people of the Jews, and the law, and this sacred place? and besides, hath brought Greeks too into the temple, and polluted this holy place.
Acts 23:13And they were more than forty that had made this oath:
1 Corinthians 1:18For the doctrine of the cross is to them, that perish, foolishness: but to us, who are saved, it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 15:30And why are we in danger every hour?
Galatians 2:3But even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, 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 →