New American Standard Bible 2020

Galatians 5:2-11

2Look! I, 1Paul, tell you that if you have yourselves 2circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3And I 3testify again to every man who has himself 4circumcised, that he is obligated to 5keep the whole Law. 4You have been severed from Christ, you who 6are seeking to be justified by the 7Law; you have 8fallen from grace. 5For we, 9through the Spirit, 10by faith, are 11waiting for the hope of righteousness. 6For in 12Christ Jesus 13neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but 14faith working through love.

7You were 15running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8This persuasion did not come from 16Him who calls you. 9 17A little 18leaven leavens the whole lump of dough. 10 19I have confidence 20in you in the Lord, that you 21will adopt no other view; but the one who is 22disturbing you will bear the punishment, whoever he is. 11But as for me, brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still 23persecuted? Then 24the stumbling block of the cross has been eliminated.

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Notes

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

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