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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace.

Context of Galatians 5:4

2Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing 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 5:2Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
• Galatians 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
• Romans 9:31but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal.
• Romans 10:3Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
• Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
• Romans 4:4Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation.
• Galatians 1:6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
• Romans 11:6And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
• Hebrews 6:4It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
• Hebrews 10:38And, “But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.”
• Hebrews 12:15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
• 2 Peter 2:20If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
• 2 Peter 3:17Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position.
• Revelation 2:5Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

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

In the dictionaries

• Christ
• Christ, Messiah
• Affection
• Bite
• Contrary
• Cross
• Crucify
• Debtor
• Flesh
• Gentleness

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