Galatians 5:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
  • 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. 22 They are illustrations of this true proverb:“A dog returns to its own vomit,” and“A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.
  • Gal 5:2 : 2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!
  • Rom 9:31-32 : 31 but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it. 32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but(as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
  • Rom 10:3-5 : 3 For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4 For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes. 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law:“The one who does these things will live by them.”
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 4:4-5 : 4 Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age, 6 and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.
  • Rev 2:5 : 5 Therefore, remember from what high state you have fallen and repent! Do the deeds you did at the first; if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place– that is, if you do not repent.
  • Gal 1:6-9 : 6 Occasion of the Letter I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel– 7 not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we(or an angel from heaven) should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be condemned to hell! 9 As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!
  • 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard that you do not get led astray by the error of these unprincipled men and fall from your firm grasp on the truth. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 2:21
    80%

    21I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

  • Gal 5:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

    2Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

    3And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

  • Rom 4:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

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

  • Gal 2:16-19
    4 verses
    76%

    16yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

    17But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

    18But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

    19For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

  • Gal 5:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

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

    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

    7You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?

  • Rom 11:6
    74%

    6And if it is by grace, it is no longer by 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 have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

    15The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

  • Gal 3:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1Justification by Law or by Faith? You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

    2The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

    3Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

    4Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.

  • Gal 1:6
    74%

    6Occasion of the Letter I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel–

  • Rom 10:4
    74%

    4For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

  • Acts 13:39
    73%

    39and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

  • Rom 7:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

  • Rom 3:28
    73%

    28For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Gal 3:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”

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

  • Rom 3:20
    72%

    20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Rom 3:24
    72%

    24But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

  • Phil 3:9
    72%

    9and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

  • Rom 8:2
    72%

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

  • 1 Cor 1:30
    72%

    30He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

  • Gal 3:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

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

  • Eph 2:8
    72%

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

  • Gal 6:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Col 2:20
    71%

    20If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

  • Gal 4:7
    71%

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

  • Eph 4:20
    71%

    20But you did not learn about Christ like this,

  • Gal 3:21
    71%

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

  • Rom 5:1
    71%

    1The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous 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(because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)

  • Gal 4:9
    71%

    9But now that you have come to know God(or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

  • Gal 5:11
    70%

    11Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

  • Rom 8:9
    70%

    9You, however, 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, this person does not belong to him.

  • Rom 4:4
    70%

    4Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.