New American Standard Bible 2020

Galatians 5:1-12

1 1It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore 2keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a 3yoke of slavery.

2Look! I, 4Paul, tell you that if you have yourselves 5circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3And I 6testify again to every man who has himself 7circumcised, that he is obligated to 8keep the whole Law. 4You have been severed from Christ, you who 9are seeking to be justified by the 10Law; you have 11fallen from grace. 5For we, 12through the Spirit, 13by faith, are 14waiting for the hope of righteousness. 6For in 15Christ Jesus 16neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but 17faith working through love.

7You were 18running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8This persuasion did not come from 19Him who calls you. 9 20A little 21leaven leavens the whole lump of dough. 10 22I have confidence 23in you in the Lord, that you 24will adopt no other view; but the one who is 25disturbing you will bear the punishment, whoever he is. 11But as for me, brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still 26persecuted? Then 27the stumbling block of the cross has been eliminated. 12I wish that 28those who are troubling you would even 29 30emasculate themselves.

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Notes

1. Galatians 5:1 John 8:32, 36; Rom 8:15; 2 Cor 3:17; Gal 2:4; 5:13 ↩
2. Galatians 5:1 1 Cor 16:13 ↩
3. Galatians 5:1 Acts 15:10; Gal 2:4 ↩
4. Galatians 5:2 2 Cor 10:1 ↩
5. Galatians 5:2 Acts 15:1; Gal 5:3, 6, 11 ↩
6. Galatians 5:3 Luke 16:28 ↩
7. Galatians 5:3 Acts 15:1; Gal 5:2, 6, 11 ↩
8. Galatians 5:3 Rom 2:25 ↩
9. Galatians 5:4 Or would be ↩
10. Galatians 5:4 Or law ↩
11. Galatians 5:4 Heb 12:15; 2 Pet 3:17 ↩
12. Galatians 5:5 Lit by ↩
13. Galatians 5:5 Lit out of ↩
14. Galatians 5:5 Rom 8:23; 1 Cor 1:7 ↩
15. Galatians 5:6 Gal 3:26 ↩
16. Galatians 5:6 1 Cor 7:19; Gal 6:15 ↩
17. Galatians 5:6 Col 1:4f; 1 Thess 1:3; James 2:18, 20, 22 ↩
18. Galatians 5:7 Gal 2:2 ↩
19. Galatians 5:8 Rom 8:28; Gal 1:6 ↩
20. Galatians 5:9 1 Cor 5:6 ↩
21. Galatians 5:9 I.e., fermented dough ↩
22. Galatians 5:10 2 Cor 2:3 ↩
23. Galatians 5:10 Lit toward ↩
24. Galatians 5:10 Gal 5:7; Phil 3:15 ↩
25. Galatians 5:10 Gal 1:7; 5:12 ↩
26. Galatians 5:11 Gal 4:29; 6:12 ↩
27. Galatians 5:11 Rom 9:33; 1 Cor 1:23 ↩
28. Galatians 5:12 Gal 2:4; 5:10 ↩
29. Galatians 5:12 Or cut themselves off ↩
30. Galatians 5:12 Deut 23:1 ↩

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