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Galatia 5:3

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Circumcision;   Obedience;   The Topic Concordance - Legalism;   Waiting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Circumcision;   Creditors;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Debtor;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;   Law;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Discipline;   Flesh;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Law;   Liberty;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;   Galatians, the Epistle to the;   Gilgal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Galatians, Letter to the;   Proselytes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Galatians, Epistle to the;   Justification, Justify;   Law;   Quotations;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Debt, Debtor;   Galatians Epistle to the;   Law;   Moses;   Proselyte;   Proselyte (2);   Universalism (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Circumcision;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Galatians, Epistle to the;   Lord's Day;   Proselyte;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Polemics and Polemical Literature;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 8;  

Parallel Translations

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Contextual Overview

1 Stande fast therfore in the libertie wherwith Christe hath made vs free, and be not intangled agayne with ye yoke of bondage. 2 Beholde I Paul saye vnto you, that yf ye be , circumcised Christe shall profite you nothyng. 3 For I testifie agayne to euery man which is circumcised, that he is a detter to do the whole lawe. 4 Christe is become but vayne to you, as many of you as are iustified by the lawe, are fallen from grace. 5 For we through the spirite, wayte for the hope of ryghteousnes by fayth. 6 For in Iesus Christe, neither is circumcision any thing woorth, neither yet vncircumcision: but fayth, which worketh by loue. 7 Ye dyd runne well, who was a let vnto you, that ye should not obey ye trueth? 8 Not the perfection of hym that called you. 9 A litle leauen, doth leauen the whole lumpe of dowe. 10 I haue truste towarde you in the Lorde, that ye wyll be none otherwyse mynded: But he that troubleth you, shall beare iudgement, whatsoeuer he be.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

testify: Deuteronomy 8:19, Deuteronomy 31:21, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Nehemiah 9:34, Luke 16:28, Acts 2:40, Acts 20:21, Ephesians 4:17, 1 Thessalonians 4:6, 1 John 4:14

a debtor: Galatians 3:10, Deuteronomy 27:26, Matthew 23:16, Matthew 23:18,*Gr: James 2:10, James 2:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:10 - Every Leviticus 12:3 - General Nehemiah 13:15 - I testified Acts 13:39 - from which Romans 2:25 - circumcision Romans 9:31 - hath Romans 10:3 - to establish Galatians 5:6 - in 1 Timothy 1:7 - to

Cross-References

Genesis 4:25
Adam knewe his wyfe agayne, and she bare a sonne, and called his name Seth: For God [sayde she] hath appoynted me another seede in steade of Habel whom Cain slewe.
Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the daye of their creation.
Genesis 5:3
And Adam lyued an hundreth and thirtie yeres, and begate a sonne in his owne lykenesse, after his image, & called his name Seth.
Genesis 5:14
And all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and ten yeres, and he dyed.
Genesis 5:16
And againe Mahalaleel liued after he begate Iered eyght hundreth & thirtie yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
Job 14:4
Who can make it cleane that commeth of an vncleane thing? no bodye.
Job 25:4
But how may a man compared vnto God, be iustified? or how can he be cleane that is borne of a woman?
Psalms 51:5
Beholde, I was ingendred in iniquitie: and in sinne my mother conceaued me.
Luke 1:35
And the Angel aunswered, & saide vnto her: The holy ghost shall come vpon thee, & the power of the hyest shall ouershadowe thee. Therefore also that holy thyng whiche shalbe borne, shalbe called the sonne of God.
John 3:6
That which is borne of the fleshe, is fleshe: and that which is borne of the spirite, is spirite.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I testify again to every man,.... This is the form of an oath, a calling God to witness, swearing by the living God, and declaring as in his presence to every man, whether Jew or Gentile, whoever he be:

that is circumcised; in order to obtain salvation, and as necessary to it:

that he is a debtor to do the whole law; and this it is that made circumcision an insupportable yoke, for that itself might be bore, and was bore by children of eight days old; but the fulfilling of the whole law cannot be done by any man; and yet everyone that is circumcised, in order to procure righteousness and life, is bound to keep the whole law; because the law is only his righteousness, when he observes all that is required in it, and as the Lord has commanded; if he does not, he is pronounced accursed: and this proves what was before said, that Christ is of no profit to such persons; because they reject him and his righteousness, and, as much as in them lie, make void his obedience, sufferings, and death: hence the same thing is repeated, though not in the same words, in the next verse.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I testify again - Probably he had stated this when he had preached the gospel to them first, and he now solemnly bears witness to the same thing again. Bloomfield, however, supposes that the word “again” here (πάλιν palin) means, on the other hand, or, “furthermore,” or, as we would say, “and again.”

That he is a debtor to do the whole law - He binds himself to obey all the Law of Moses. Circumcision was the distinguishing badge of the Jews, as baptism is of Christians. A man, therefore, who became circumcised became a professor of the Jewish religion, and bound himself to obey all its special laws. This must be understood, of course, with reference to the point under discussion; and means, if he did it with a view to justification, or as a thing that was necessary and binding. It would not apply to such a case as that of Timothy, where it was a matter of mere expediency or prudence; see the note at Galatians 5:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Galatians 5:3. He is a debtor to do the whole law. — Lays himself, by receiving circumcision, under the obligation to fulfil all its precepts, ordinances, &c.


 
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