Galatians 5:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐν γὰρ Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ οὔτε περιτομή τι ἰσχύει, οὔτε ἀκροβυστία· ἀλλὰ πίστις διʼ ἀγάπης ἐνεργουμένη.

Transliteration

For in Christō Iēsou neither peritomē ti ischyei, nor akrobystia; but pistis di' agapēs energoumenē.

Grammar Details

• *Christō Iēsou*: dative, masculine, singular - in Christ Jesus
• *peritomē*: nominative, feminine, singular - circumcision
• *ti*: accusative, neuter, singular - anything/something
• *ischyei*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - has power/avails/is effective
• *akrobystia*: nominative, feminine, singular - uncircumcision/foreskin
• *pistis*: nominative, feminine, singular - faith/belief
• *di'*: preposition with genitive (shortened from dia) - through/by means of
• *agapēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of love
• *energoumenē*: present, middle, participle, nominative, feminine, singular - working/operating/expressing itself

Word Meanings

• *peritomē*: circumcision/the circumcised
• *ischyei*: has power/avails/is effective/counts for anything
• *akrobystia*: uncircumcision/foreskin/the uncircumcised
• *pistis*: faith/belief/trust
• *agapēs*: love/charity/benevolence
• *energoumenē*: working/operating/expressing itself/being effective

Referenced Verses

• Matt 25:31-40 : 31 But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: 32 and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; 33 and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; 36 naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink? 38 And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, [even] these least, ye did it unto me.
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
• Jas 2:14-26 : 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. 18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith. 19 Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect; 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God. 24 Ye see {G5106} that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. 25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
• 1 John 3:14-20 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not {G80} abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby {G5129} know we love, {G2316} because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso {G302} hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? 18 [ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth. 19 {G2532} Hereby {G5129} shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him: 20 because if our heart {G3754} condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
• 1 John 4:18-21 : 18 There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love, {G25} {G846} because he first loved us. 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, {G4459} cannot love God whom he hath not seen. 21 And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
• Gal 6:15 : 15 For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
• 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that {G1487} one died for all, therefore {G599} all died;
• 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
• Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
• Heb 11:17-19 : 17 By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten [son]; 18 [None even he] to whom it was said, {G3754} In Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.
• Gal 3:28 : 28 There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one [man] in Christ Jesus.
• Gal 5:2-3 : 2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
• Col 3:11 : 11 where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
• Rom 2:25-29 : 25 For 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. 26 If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision? 27 and 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? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one {G1722} outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29 but he is a Jew who is one {G1722} inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
• Rom 3:29-31 : 29 Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the] [God] of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also: 30 if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.