Galatians 5:11

World English Bible (2000)

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

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  • 1 Cor 1:23 : 23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
  • Gal 4:29 : 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
  • Gal 6:12 : 12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
  • Gal 6:17 : 17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
  • 1 Pet 2:8-9 : 8 and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • 1 Cor 15:30 : 30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
  • 2 Cor 11:23-26 : 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
  • Gal 2:3 : 3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
  • Isa 8:14 : 14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  • Acts 16:3 : 3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
  • Acts 21:21 : 21 They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.
  • Acts 21:28 : 28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"
  • Acts 22:21-22 : 21 "He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'" 22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
  • Acts 23:13-14 : 13 There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. 14 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
  • Rom 9:32-33 : 32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; 33 even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."
  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

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    12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

    14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

    15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

  • Gal 5:12
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    12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

  • Gal 5:1-4
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    1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

    2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

    3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

    4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • Gal 5:10
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    10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

  • Gal 6:17
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    17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

    11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • Rom 2:25-27
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    25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

    26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

    27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

  • Gal 2:17-21
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    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

    18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

    19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

    20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

    21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

  • 1 Cor 1:17-18
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    17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

    18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

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    3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

    4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

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    11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

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    16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

    17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

    18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

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    4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

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    29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?

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    16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

  • 1 Cor 7:18
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    18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

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    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

  • Gal 4:11-12
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    11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

    12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

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    13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

  • Gal 2:3
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    3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

  • Gal 5:24
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    24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

  • Gal 2:14
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    14 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

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    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

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    14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;

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    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.