Galatians 5:2 Cross References - WPNT

² Listen! I, Paul, say to you that if you get circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

¹ Then some men came down from Judea and started teaching the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved”.

²⁴ Since we have heard that some who went out from among us have disturbed you with words, unsettling your souls, saying that you must be circumcised and keep the law —to whom we gave no such authorization—

³ Paul wanted to have him go on with him, so he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, because they all knew that his father was a Greek. ⁴ As they were going through the cities they were delivering the dogmas to them, to keep—the ones that had been determined by the apostles and the elders in Jerusalem.

³¹ while Israel, pursuing a standard of righteousness, did not attain to that standard. ³² Why not? Because it was not from faith, but as from works of the law. They stumbled over the ‘stumbling stone’;

² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to full knowledge. ³ For they, failing to understand God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

²¹ I, Paul, personally sign this greeting.

¹ Now I, Paul, am myself appealing to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ (I who am ‘humble when present’ among you, but ‘bold when absent’ toward you).

³ However, not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, for being a Greek. ⁴ This came up because of the false brothers who were smuggled in (who stole in to spy out our freedom, that we have in Christ Jesus, so as to reduce us to slavery), ⁵ to whom we did not yield, even for a moment, so that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.—

³ Further, I testify again to every man who gets circumcised that he is obligated to keep the whole law. ⁴ You who are ‘being justified’ by law have been alienated from the Christ; you have fallen away from the grace.

⁶ Because in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

¹¹ But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that event the offense of the cross would have been removed.

¹⁸ (We actually tried to come to you—I, Paul, time and again—but Satan thwarted us.)

⁹ I—being none other than Paul the old man and now also a prisoner for Jesus Christ—would rather appeal to you, for love’s sake.

² Really, because we are continually hearing good news just like they did, but the word that they heard did not profit them, since they were not intimately united with the faith of those who obeyed.