the Week of Proper 27 / Ordinary 32
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Galatians 5:2
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Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you start following the law by being circumcised, then Christ cannot help you.
Now I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
Beholde I Paul saye vnto you that yf ye be circumcised Christ shall proffit you nothinge at all.
Behold, I, Sha'ul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Messiah will profit you nothing.
Look! I, Paul, tell you that if you have yourselves circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
Listen, I Paul tell you that if you go back to the law by being circumcised, Christ does you no good.
Look, I Paul say to you, that, if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Behold, I Paul say unto you, If ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Remember that it is I Paul who tell you that if you receive circumcision Christ will avail you nothing.
Lo! Y Poul seie to you, that if ye ben circumcidid, Crist schal no thing profite to you.
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
I, Paul, promise you that Christ won't do you any good if you get circumcised.
Notice, it is I, Paul, who tells you that if you receive circumcision [as a supposed requirement of salvation], Christ will be of no benefit to you [for you will lack the faith in Christ that is necessary for salvation].
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.
Mark my words — I, Sha'ul, tell you that if you undergo b'rit-milah the Messiah will be of no advantage to you at all!
Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.Acts 15:1; 16:3;">[xr]
Behold, I, Paulos, tell you, that if you be circumcised, the Meshiha profiteth you nothing.
Behold, I Paul say to you, That if ye become circumcised, the Messiah is of no advantage to you.
Beholde, I Paul say vnto you that if ye be circumcised, Christ shal profite you nothing.
Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you.
Listen to me! I, Paul, tell you that if you have the religious act of becoming a Jew done on you, Christ will be of no use to you at all.
Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
Beholde, I Paul say vnto you, that if yee be circumcised, Christ shall profite you nothing.
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you be circumcised, then Christ is of no benefit to you.
See! I, Paul, say unto you - if ye be getting circumcised, Christ will profit you, nothing.
Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Beholde I Paul saye vnto you, that yf ye be , circumcised Christe shall profite you nothyng.
Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, it means that Christ is of no use to you at all.
Take note! I, Paul, am telling you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all.
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Look! I, Paul, tell you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing!
Behold, I, Paul, say to you that if you are circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;
Beholde, I Paul saye vnto you: Yf ye be circumcysed, Christ profiteth you nothinge at all.
take notice, 'tis I Paul declare it to you, that if you are circumcised, Christ shall be of no advantage to you.
I am emphatic about this. The moment any one of you submits to circumcision or any other rule-keeping system, at that same moment Christ's hard-won gift of freedom is squandered. I repeat my warning: The person who accepts the ways of circumcision trades all the advantages of the free life in Christ for the obligations of the slave life of the law.
Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!
Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
Listen to me! If you think clipping your pickles is going to make God like you better, then you must not need Jesus.
Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I Paul: 1 Corinthians 16:21, 2 Corinthians 10:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:18, Philemon 1:9
that: Galatians 5:4, Galatians 5:6, Galatians 2:3-5, Acts 15:1, Acts 15:24, Acts 16:3, Acts 16:4, Romans 9:31, Romans 9:32, Romans 10:2, Romans 10:3, Hebrews 4:2
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 9:25 - that Ezekiel 3:21 - if thou 2 Corinthians 11:29 - and I burn Galatians 2:21 - righteousness Galatians 4:11 - lest Ephesians 3:1 - I Philippians 3:7 - General Colossians 2:19 - not Philemon 1:19 - I Paul
Cross-References
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
And the man said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for out of man she was taken."
Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. Therefore guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
Jesus answered, "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female'
However, from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.'
From one man He made every nation of men, to inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, I Paul say unto you,.... The apostle proceeds to give some reasons and arguments to enforce the above exhortation and dissuasion: the first of which is introduced with a note of attention, "behold"; what he was about to say being matter of great moment and importance; and also mentions himself by name, as the assertor of it; and that, either because his name was well known to them, and the rather because of his apostolical authority; and to show his full assurance of this matter, and his intrepidity, and that he was no ways ashamed of it, they might, if they pleased, say it to whomsoever they would, that Paul the apostle affirmed,
that if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing: he speaks of circumcision, not as when it was an ordinance of God, but as it was now abolished by Christ; and that got as singly performed on some certain accounts for he himself circumcised Timothy for the sake of the Jews; but as done in order to salvation, or as necessary unto it; which was the doctrine the false apostles taught and these Galatians were ready to give into: now circumcision submitted to on this consideration, and with this view rendered Christ unprofitable, made his death to be in vain, his sacrifice of no effect, and his righteousness useless: besides, Christ is a whole Saviour, or none at all; to join anything with him and his righteousness, in the business of justification and salvation, is interpreted by him as a contempt and neglect of him, as laying him aside, and to such persons he is of no profit; and if he is not, what they have, and whatsoever they do, will be of no advantage; wealth and riches, yea, the whole world could it be gained, their works and righteousness, whatever show they make before men, God has declared shall not profit them; and trusting to these renders Christ unprofitable to them. This is directly contrary to the notions of the Jews, who think they shall be saved for their circumcision, and that that will secure them from hell; they say m no circumcised person goes down to hell, and that whoever is circumcised shall inherit the land; but there is none shall inherit the land, save a righteous person; but everyone that is circumcised is called a righteous man n; so that circumcision is their righteousness, on account of which they expect heaven and happiness.
m Shemot Rabba, sect. 19. fol. 104. 4. n Zohar in Exod. fol. 10. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Behold, I Paul say unto you - I, who at first preached the gospel to you; I, too, who have been circumcised, and who was formerly a strenuous assertor of the necessity of observing the laws of Moses; and I, too, who am charged (see Galatians 5:11) with still preaching the necessity of circumcision, now solemnly say to you, that if you are circumcised with a view to being justified by that in whole or in part, it amounts to a rejection of the doctrine of justification by Christ, and an entire apostacy from him. He is to be “a whole Saviour.” No one is to share with him in the honor of saving people; and no rite, no custom, no observance of law, is to divide the honor with his death. The design of Paul is to give them the most solemn assurance on this point; and by his own authority and experience to guard them from the danger, and to put the matter to rest.
That if ye be circumcised - This must be understood with reference to the subject under consideration. If you are circumcised with such a view as is maintained by the false teachers that have come among you; that is, with an idea that it is necessary in order to your justification. He evidently did not mean that if any of them had been circumcised before their conversion to Christianity; nor could he mean to say, that circumcision in all cases amounted to a rejection of Christianity, for he had himself procured the circumcision of Timothy, Acts 16:3. If it was done, as it was then, for prudential considerations, and with a wish not necessarily to irritate the Jews, and to give one a more ready access to them, it was not to be regarded as wrong. But if, as the false teachers in Galatia claimed, as a thing essential to salvation, as indispensable to justification and acceptance with God, then the matter assumed a different aspect; and then it became in fact a renouncing of Christ as himself sufficient to save us. So with anything else. Rites and ceremonies in religion may be in themselves well enough, if they are held to be matters not essential; but the moment they are regarded as vital and essential, that moment they begin to infringe on the doctrine of justification by faith alone, and that moment they are to be rejected; and it is because of the danger that this will be the case, that they are to be used sparingly in the Christian church. Who does not know the danger of depending upon prayers, and alms, and the sacraments, and extreme unction, and penance, and empty forms for salvation? And who does not know how much in the papal communion the great doctrine of justification has been obscured by numberless such rites and forms?
Christ shall profit you nothing - Will be of no advantage to you. Your dependence on circumcision, in these circumstances, will in fact amount to a rejection of the Saviour, and of the doctrine of justification by him.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Galatians 5:2. If ye be circumcised — By circumcision you take on you the whole obligation of the Jewish law, and consequently profess to seek salvation by means of its observances; and therefore Christ can profit you nothing; for, by seeking justification by the works of the law, you renounce justification by faith in Christ.
