Galatians 5:11

American Standard Version (1901)

But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.

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  • 1 Cor 1:23 : 23 but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;
  • Gal 4:29 : 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, so also it is now.
  • Gal 6:12 : 12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
  • Gal 6:17 : 17 Henceforth, let no man trouble me; for I bear branded on my body the marks of Jesus.
  • 1 Pet 2:8-9 : 8 and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  • 1 Cor 15:30 : 30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
  • 2 Cor 11:23-26 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;
  • Gal 2:3 : 3 But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
  • Isa 8:14 : 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  • Acts 16:3 : 3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those parts: for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
  • Acts 21:21 : 21 and they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.
  • Acts 21:28 : 28 crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place.
  • Acts 22:21-22 : 21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles. 22 And they gave him audience unto this word; and they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
  • Acts 23:13-14 : 13 And they were more than forty that made this conspiracy. 14 And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
  • Rom 9:32-33 : 32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling; 33 even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.
  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

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  • Gal 6:12-15
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    12As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

    14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

    15For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

  • Gal 5:12
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    12I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.

  • Gal 5:1-4
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    1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

    2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

    3Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

    4Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

  • Gal 5:10
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    10I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

  • Gal 6:17
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    17Henceforth, let no man trouble me; for I bear branded on my body the marks of Jesus.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

    11For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • Rom 2:25-27
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    25For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

    26If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?

    27and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

  • Gal 2:17-21
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    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

    18For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

    20I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

    21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

  • 1 Cor 1:17-18
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    17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

    18For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

  • Phil 3:3-4
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    3for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

    4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

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    11persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

  • Phil 1:16-18
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    16the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

    17but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

    18What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

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    4Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

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    16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

  • 1 Cor 7:18
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    18Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

  • Gal 4:11-12
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    11I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

    12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

  • Gal 1:13
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    13For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

  • Gal 2:3
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    3But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:

  • Gal 5:24
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    24And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

  • Gal 2:14
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    14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

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    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

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    14For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;

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    10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.