Galatians 5:4

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You who are justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

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  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For if, after escaping the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 Of them the true proverb has come true: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow that is washed returns to wallowing in the mud."
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer based on works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
  • Gal 5:2 : 2 Listen! I, Paul, say to you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
  • Rom 9:31-32 : 31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, did not attain it. 32 Why not? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stone of stumbling,
  • Rom 10:3-5 : 3 For they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and seek to establish their own; they have not submitted to God’s righteousness. 4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 4:4-5 : 4 Now to the one who works, wages are not counted as a gift but as an obligation. 5 But to the one who does not work but believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, 6 if they fall away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God again for themselves and subjecting Him to public disgrace.
  • Rev 2:5 : 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
  • Gal 1:6-9 : 6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from the One who called you by the grace of Christ to a different gospel— 7 not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed! 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed!
  • 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 Therefore, beloved, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own steadfastness. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he draws back, My soul will have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith for the preservation of the soul.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 2:21
    80%

    21I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

  • Gal 5:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

    2Listen! I, Paul, say to you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

    3Again I declare to every man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

  • Rom 4:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14For if those who are of the law inherit, faith is made void, and the promise is nullified.

    15For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • Gal 2:16-19
    4 verses
    76%

    16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

    17But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

    18For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

    19For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ.

  • Gal 5:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.

    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight, but faith working through love does.

    7You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

  • Rom 11:6
    74%

    6And if by grace, then it is no longer based on works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

  • Gal 5:18
    74%

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

  • Rom 6:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.

    15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not!

  • Gal 3:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes, Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

    2I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

    3Are you so foolish? After beginning by the Spirit, are you now trying to complete it by human effort?

    4Did you suffer so much for nothing—if it really was for nothing?

  • Gal 1:6
    74%

    6I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from the One who called you by the grace of Christ to a different gospel—

  • Rom 10:4
    74%

    4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

  • Acts 13:39
    73%

    39Through Him, everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

  • Rom 7:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

  • Rom 3:28
    73%

    28For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Gal 3:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.'

    11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.'

  • Rom 3:20
    72%

    20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Rom 3:24
    72%

    24And all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

  • Phil 3:9
    72%

    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

  • Rom 8:2
    72%

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

  • 1 Cor 1:30
    72%

    30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

  • Gal 3:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24So the law was our guardian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.

    25Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

  • Eph 2:8
    72%

    8For by grace you have been saved through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

  • Gal 6:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13For even those who are circumcised do not keep the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so they can boast about your flesh.

    14But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Col 2:20
    71%

    20If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?

  • Gal 4:7
    71%

    7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then also an heir through God.

  • Eph 4:20
    71%

    20But that is not the way you learned Christ,

  • Gal 3:21
    71%

    21Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

  • Rom 5:1
    71%

    1Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Gal 3:13
    71%

    13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.'

  • Gal 4:9
    71%

    9But now, having come to know God—or rather, having been known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, whose slaves you want to be once more?

  • Gal 5:11
    70%

    11Brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? If that were the case, the offense of the cross would be eliminated.

  • Rom 8:9
    70%

    9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Him.

  • Rom 4:4
    70%

    4Now to the one who works, wages are not counted as a gift but as an obligation.