Galatians 5:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
  • 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
  • Gal 5:2 : 2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
  • 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 10:3-5 : 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. 4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 4:4-5 : 4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed. 5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
  • Rev 2:5 : 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
  • Gal 1:6-9 : 6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news"; 7 and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ. 8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. 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.
  • 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you 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 forever. Amen.
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." 39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

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  • Gal 2:21
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    21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

  • Gal 5:1-3
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    78%

    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.

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

    15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

  • Gal 2:16-19
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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.

  • Gal 5:5-7
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    5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

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

    7 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

  • Rom 11:6
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    6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

  • Gal 5:18
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    18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

    15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

  • Gal 3:1-4
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    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?

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

    3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

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

  • Gal 1:6
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    6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

  • Rom 10:4
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    4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

  • Acts 13:39
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    39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

    5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

    6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

  • Rom 3:28
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    28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Gal 3:10-11
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    10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

    11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

  • Rom 3:20
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    20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Rom 3:24
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    24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

  • 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;

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

  • Gal 3:24-25
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    72%

    24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

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

  • Eph 2:8
    72%

    8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  • Gal 6:13-14
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    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.

  • Col 2:20
    71%

    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,

  • Gal 4:7
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    7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

  • Eph 4:20
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    20 But you did not learn Christ that way;

  • Gal 3:21
    71%

    21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

  • Rom 5:1
    71%

    1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • Gal 3:13
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    13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

  • Gal 4:9
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    9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

  • Gal 5:11
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    11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

  • Rom 8:9
    70%

    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.

  • Rom 4:4
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    4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.