Galatians 5:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Gal 2:3-5 : 3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage; 5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
  • Gal 5:3-4 : 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.
  • Acts 15:1 : 1 Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can't be saved."
  • Rom 9:31-32 : 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. 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;
  • Rom 10:2-3 : 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
  • Heb 4:2 : 2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
  • Acts 16:3-4 : 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. 4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
  • 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
  • Acts 15:24 : 24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;
  • Gal 5:11 : 11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
  • 1 Thess 2:18 : 18 because we wanted to come to you--indeed, I, Paul, once and again--but Satan hindered us.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 5:3-4
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    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 5:1
    81%

    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.

  • Rom 2:25-29
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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?

    28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

    29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

  • Gal 6:12-15
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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 5:10-12
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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.

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

    12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

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

  • Phil 3:3-4
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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:

  • Gal 2:16-21
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    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

    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 7:18-19
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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.

    19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

  • Gal 2:3-4
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    3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

    4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

  • Col 2:11
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    11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

  • Col 3:11
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    11 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

  • Acts 15:1
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    1 Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can't be saved."

  • Rom 3:1
    71%

    1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

  • Gal 3:4
    70%

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

  • Gal 3:28-29
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    28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

    29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

  • Rom 8:9
    69%

    9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

  • Col 2:20
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    20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

  • Phil 3:7
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    7 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

  • Gal 1:9-10
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    9 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

    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.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
    69%

    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.

  • Gal 5:18
    68%

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

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

  • Gal 3:1
    68%

    1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?

  • Rom 8:2
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    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

  • 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 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?

  • 2 Cor 5:16
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    16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

  • Acts 15:24
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    24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;

  • Phil 3:9
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    9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;