Galatians 5:4

Galatians 5:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
• New International Version (NIV)You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

Context of Galatians 5:4

2I, Paul, can guarantee that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3Again, I insist that everyone who allows himself to be circumcised must realize that he obligates himself to do everything Moses’ Teachings demand. Those of you who try to earn God’s approval by obeying his laws have been cut off from Christ. You have fallen out of God’s favor. 5However, in our spiritual nature, faith causes us to wait eagerly for the confidence that comes with God’s approval. 6As far as our relationship to Christ Jesus is concerned, it doesn’t matter whether we are circumcised or not. But what matters is a faith that expresses itself through love.

Galatians 5:4 word by word

κατηργήθητε ἀπὸ Χριστοῦ οἵτινες ἐν νόμῳ δικαιοῦσθε, τῆς χάριτος ἐξεπέσατε.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Christὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• ChristΧριστόςChristos · ChristG5547
• is becomeκαταργέωkatargeō · to abateG2673
• ofἀπόapo · away fromG575
• whosoeverὅστιςhostis hētis ho6ti · who/whichG3748
• of you are justifiedδικαιόωdikaioō · to justifyG1344
• byἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• the lawνόμοςnomos · lawG3551
• ye are fallen fromἐκπίπτωekpiptō · to fall outG1601
• graceχάριςcharis · graceG5485

Cross-references for Galatians 5:4

• Galatians 5:2I, Paul, can guarantee that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
• Galatians 2:21I don’t reject God’s kindness. If we receive God’s approval by obeying the laws in the Scriptures, then Christ’s death was pointless.
• Romans 9:31The people of Israel tried to gain God’s approval by obeying the laws in Moses’ Teachings, but they did not reach their goal.
• Romans 10:3They don’t understand ⌞how to receive⌟ God’s approval. So they try to set up their own way to get it, and they have not accepted God’s way for receiving his approval.
• Romans 3:20Not one person can have God’s approval by any effort to follow the laws in the Scriptures. These laws show what sin is.
• Romans 4:4When people work, their pay is not regarded as a gift but something they have earned.
• Galatians 1:6I’m surprised that you’re so quickly deserting Christ, who called you in his kindness, to follow a different kind of good news.
• Romans 11:6If they were chosen by God’s kindness, they weren’t chosen because of anything they did. Otherwise, God’s kindness wouldn’t be kindness.
• Hebrews 6:4Some people once had God’s light. They experienced the heavenly gift and shared in the Holy Spirit.
• Hebrews 10:38The person who has God’s approval will live by faith. But if he turns back, I will not be pleased with him.”
• Hebrews 12:15Make sure that everyone has kindness from God so that bitterness doesn’t take root and grow up to cause trouble that corrupts many of you.
• 2 Peter 2:20People can know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and escape the world’s filth. But if they get involved in this filth again and give in to it, they are worse off than they were before.
• 2 Peter 3:17Dear friends, you already know these things. So be on your guard not to be carried away by the deception of people who have no principles. Then you won’t fall from your firm position.
• Revelation 2:5Remember how far you have fallen. Return to me and change the way you think and act, and do what you did at first. I will come to you and take your lamp stand from its place if you don’t change.

Commentaries on Galatians 5:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Christ is become of no effect unto you - It is vain for you to attempt to unite the two systems. You must have the law and no Christ, or Christ and no law, for your justification. Ye are fallen from grace - From the Gospel. They had been brought into the grace of the Gospel; and now, by readopting the Mosaic ordinances, they had apostatized from the Gospel as a system of religion, and had lost the grace communicated to their souls, by which they were…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Christ is become of no effect unto you - You will derive no advantage from Christ. His work in regard to you is needless and vain. If you can be justified in any other way than by him, then of course you do not need him, and your adoption of the other mode is in fact a renunciation of him. Tyndale renders this: “Ye are gone quite from Christ.” The word here used ( ́ katargeō), means properly, to render inactive, idle, useless; to do away, to put an end…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4People who believe circumcision is needed for salvation depend on the law and themselves, not on Jesus Christ. These people are separated from Jesus and are outside of his grace (see Romans 5:2). They are under the law's judgment. They have lost the benefits of God’s grace (see Galatians 1:6; 1 Peter 5:12).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Literally, "Ye have become void from Christ," that is, your connection with Christ has become void (Ga 5:2). Ro 7:2, "Loosed from the law," where the same Greek occurs as here. whosoever of you are justified--"are being justified," that is, are endeavoring to be justified. by the law--Greek, "IN the law," as the element in which justification is to take place. fallen from grace--Ye no longer "stand" in grace (Ro 5:2). Grace and legal righteousness…Read the comment

Topics related to Galatians 5:4

• Circumcision
• Justification
• Works

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Commentaries on Galatians 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings