Galatians 5:11

Geneva Bible (1560)

And brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why doe I yet suffer persecution? Then is the slaunder of the crosse abolished.

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  • 1 Cor 1:23 : 23 But wee preach Christ crucified: vnto the Iewes, euen a stumbling blocke, and vnto the Grecians, foolishnesse:
  • Gal 4:29 : 29 But as then hee that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit, euen so it is nowe.
  • Gal 6:12 : 12 As many as desire to make a faire shewe in the flesh, they constraine you to be circumcised, onely because they would not suffer persecution for the crosse of Christ.
  • Gal 6:17 : 17 From henceforth let no man put me to busines: for I beare in my body the markes of the Lord Iesus.
  • 1 Pet 2:8-9 : 8 And a stone to stumble at, and a rocke of offence, euen to them which stumble at the woorde, being disobedient, vnto the which thing they were euen ordeined. 9 But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthoode, an holy nation, a people set at libertie, that yee shoulde shewe foorth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueilous light,
  • 1 Cor 15:30 : 30 Why are wee also in ieopardie euery houre?
  • 2 Cor 11:23-26 : 23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speake as a foole) I am more: in labours more aboundant: in stripes aboue measure: in prison more plenteously: in death oft. 24 Of the Iewes fiue times receiued I fourtie stripes saue one. 25 I was thrise beaten with roddes: I was once stoned: I suffered thrise shipwracke: night and day haue I bene in the deepe sea. 26 In iourneying I was often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine owne nation, in perils among the Gentiles, in perils in the citie, in perils in wildernes, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren,
  • Gal 2:3 : 3 But neither yet Titus which was with me, though he were a Grecian, was compelled to be circumcised,
  • Isa 8:14 : 14 And he shalbe as a Sanctuarie: but as a stumbling stone, and as a rocke to fall vpon, to both the houses of Israel, and as a snare and as a net to the inhabitants of Ierusalem.
  • Acts 16:3 : 3 Therefore Paul would that he should go forth with him, and tooke and circumcised him, because of ye Iewes, which were in those quarters: for they knewe all, that his father was a Grecian.
  • Acts 21:21 : 21 Now they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Iewes, which are among the Gentiles, to forsake Moses, and sayest that they ought not to circumcise their sonnes, neither to liue after the customes.
  • Acts 21:28 : 28 Crying, Men of Israel, helpe: this is the man that teacheth all men euery where against the people, and the Lawe, and this place: moreouer, he hath brought Grecians into the Temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
  • Acts 22:21-22 : 21 Then he sayd vnto me, Depart: for I will send thee farre hence vnto the Gentiles. 22 And they heard him vnto this worde, but then they lift vp their voyces, and sayd, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not meete that he should liue.
  • Acts 23:13-14 : 13 And they were more then fourtie, which had made this conspiracie. 14 And they came to the chiefe Priestes and Elders, and said, We haue bound our selues with a solemne curse, that wee will eate nothing, vntill we haue slaine Paul.
  • Rom 9:32-33 : 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the workes of the Lawe: for they haue stumbled at the stumbling stone, 33 As it is written, Beholde, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone, and a rocke to make men fall: and euery one that beleeueth in him, shall not be ashamed.
  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 For that preaching of the crosse is to them that perish, foolishnesse: but vnto vs, which are saued, it is the power of God.

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  • Gal 6:12-15
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    12 As many as desire to make a faire shewe in the flesh, they constraine you to be circumcised, onely because they would not suffer persecution for the crosse of Christ.

    13 For they themselues which are circumcised keepe not the law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they might reioyce in your flesh.

    14 But God forbid that I should reioyce, but in ye crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified vnto me, & I vnto ye world.

    15 For in Christ Iesus neither circumcision auaileth any thing, nor vncircumcision, but a newe creature.

  • 12 Would to God they were euen cut off, which doe disquiet you.

  • Gal 5:1-4
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    1 Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.

    2 Beholde, I Paul say vnto you, that if yee be circumcised, Christ shall profite you nothing.

    3 For I testifie againe to euery man, which is circumcised, that he is bound to keepe the whole Lawe.

    4 Ye are abolished from Christ: whosoeuer are iustified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.

  • 10 I haue trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but hee that troubleth you, shal beare his condemnation, whosoeuer he be.

  • 17 From henceforth let no man put me to busines: for I beare in my body the markes of the Lord Iesus.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10 For nowe preach I mans doctrine, or Gods? or go I about to please men? for if I should yet please men, I were not the seruant of Christ.

    11 Now I certifie you, brethren, that ye Gospel which was preached of me, was not after man.

  • 12 But what I doe, that will I doe: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like vnto vs in that wherein they reioyce.

  • Rom 2:25-27
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    25 For circucision verely is profitable, if thou do the Lawe: but if thou be a transgressour of the Lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.

    26 Therefore if the vncircumcision keepe the ordinances of the Lawe, shall not his vncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

    27 And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (if it keepe the Lawe) condemne thee which by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the Lawe?

  • 7 Haue I committed an offence, because I abased my selfe, that ye might be exalted, and because I preached to you ye Gospell of God freely?

  • Gal 2:17-21
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    17 If then while we seeke to be made righteous by Christ, we our selues are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sinne? God forbid.

    18 For if I build againe the things that I haue destroyed, I make my selfe a trespasser.

    19 For I through the Lawe am dead to the Lawe, that I might liue vnto God.

    20 I am crucified with Christ, but I liue, yet not I any more, but Christ liueth in me: and in that that I now liue in the flesh, I liue by the faith in the Sonne of God, who hath loued me, and giuen him selfe for me.

    21 I doe not abrogate the grace of God: for if righteousnes be by the Lawe, then Christ dyed without a cause.

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    17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preache the Gospel, not with wisdome of wordes, lest the crosse of Christ should be made of none effect.

    18 For that preaching of the crosse is to them that perish, foolishnesse: but vnto vs, which are saued, it is the power of God.

  • Phil 3:3-4
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    3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirite, and reioyce in Christ Iesus, and haue no confidence in the flesh:

    4 Though I might also haue confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, much more I,

  • 11 Wherefore, whether it were I, or they, so we preach, and so haue ye beleeued.

  • 11 Persecutions, and afflictions which came vnto me at Antiochia, at Iconium, and at Lystri, which persecutions I suffered: but from them all the Lord deliuered me.

  • Phil 1:16-18
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    16 The one part preacheth Christ of contention and not purely, supposing to adde more affliction to my bandes.

    17 But the others of loue, knowing that I am set for the defence of the Gospell.

    18 What then? yet Christ is preached all maner wayes, whether it be vnder a pretence, or syncerely: and I therein ioye: yea and will ioye.

  • 18 What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.

  • 4 Haue ye suffered so many things in vaine? If so be it be euen in vaine.

  • 29 Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?

  • 16 For though I preach the Gospel, I haue nothing to reioyce of: for necessitie is laid vpon me, and woe is vnto me, if I preach not the Gospel.

  • 18 Is any man called being circumcised? Let him not gather his vncircumcision: is any called vncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

  • 15 What was then your felicitie? for I beare you recorde, that if it had bene possible, ye would haue plucked out your owne eyes, and haue giuen them vnto me.

  • 30 Hauing the same fight, which ye sawe in me, and nowe heare to be in me.

  • 13 Wherefore if meate offende my brother, I wil eate no flesh while the world standeth, that I may not offend my brother.

  • 6 For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision auaileth any thing, neither vncircumcision, but faith which worketh by loue.

  • Gal 4:11-12
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    11 I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.

    12 Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.

  • 13 For ye haue heard of my conuersation in time past, in the Iewish religion, how that I persecuted the Church of God extremely, and wasted it,

  • 3 But neither yet Titus which was with me, though he were a Grecian, was compelled to be circumcised,

  • 24 For they that are Christes, haue crucified the flesh with the affections and the lustes.

  • 14 But when I saw, that they went not ye right way to the trueth of ye Gospel, I sayd vnto Peter before all men, If thou being a Iewe, liuest as the Gentiles, and not like the Iewes, why constrainest thou the Gentiles to doe like the Iewes?

  • 5 Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles.

  • 14 For brethren, ye are become folowers of the Churches of God, which in Iudea are in Christ Iesus, because ye haue also suffred the same things of your owne countrey men, euen as they haue of the Iewes,

  • 10 The trueth of Christ is in me, that this reioycing shall not be shut vp against me in the regions of Achaia.