Galatians 5:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it. 22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;
  • Gal 5:2 : 2 See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.
  • Rom 9:31-32 : 31 But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it. 32 Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;
  • Rom 10:3-5 : 3 Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith. 5 For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 4:4-5 : 4 Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt. 5 But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit, 5 With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time, 6 And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.
  • Rev 2:5 : 5 So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.
  • Gal 1:6-9 : 6 I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort; 7 Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him. 9 As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man is a preacher to you of any good news other than that which has been given to you, let there be a curse on him.
  • 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith. 18 But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

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  • Gal 2:21
    80%

    21 I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

  • Gal 5:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

    2 See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

    3 Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

  • Rom 4:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14 For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;

    15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • Gal 2:16-19
    4 verses
    76%

    16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

    17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

    18 For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

    19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • Gal 5:5-7
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    5 For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

    6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

    7 You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?

  • Rom 11:6
    74%

    6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

  • Gal 5:18
    74%

    18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Rom 6:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

    15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

  • Gal 3:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1 O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?

    2 Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

    3 Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?

    4 Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.

  • Gal 1:6
    74%

    6 I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

  • Rom 10:4
    74%

    4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith.

  • Acts 13:39
    73%

    39 And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    73%

    4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

  • Rom 3:28
    73%

    28 For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

  • Gal 3:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.

    11 Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.

  • Rom 3:20
    72%

    20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Rom 3:24
    72%

    24 And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

  • Phil 3:9
    72%

    9 And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

  • Rom 8:2
    72%

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
    72%

    30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

  • Gal 3:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24 So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

    25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.

  • Eph 2:8
    72%

    8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

  • Gal 6:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

    14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

  • Col 2:20
    71%

    20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

  • Gal 4:7
    71%

    7 So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

  • Eph 4:20
    71%

    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

  • Gal 3:21
    71%

    21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

  • Rom 5:1
    71%

    1 For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • Gal 3:13
    71%

    13 Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:

  • Gal 4:9
    71%

    9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

  • Gal 5:11
    70%

    11 But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

  • Rom 8:9
    70%

    9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

  • Rom 4:4
    70%

    4 Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.