Galatians 5:1-5

Christ Has Set Us Free

¹ For _s freedom Christ has _t set us free; _u stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to _v a yoke of _w slavery.

² Look: I, Paul, say to you that _x if you accept circumcision, _y Christ will be of no advantage to you. ³ I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that _z he is obligated to keep the whole law. ⁴ You are _a severed from Christ, _b you who would be justified ₁ by the law; _c you have fallen away from grace. ⁵ For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly _d wait for the hope of righteousness.

1. Cross References
   Galatians 5:13
   For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
   Galatians 2:4
   Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery -
   James 1:25
   But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
   
2. Cross References
   John 8:32
   And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 16:13
   Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 15:10
   Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
   
5. Cross References
   Galatians 2:4
   Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery -
   
6. Cross References
   Galatians 5:3
   I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
   Galatians 5:11
   But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
   Acts 15:1
   But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.
   1 Corinthians 7:18
   Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision.
   
7. Cross References
   Galatians 4:11
   I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
   
8. Cross References
   Romans 2:25
   For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
   
9. Cross References
   Romans 7:6
   But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
   
10. Cross References
    Galatians 2:21
    I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
    Galatians 3:10
    For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.
    Romans 9:31 - 32
    But that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
    
11. Cross References
    Hebrews 12:15
    See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled.
    2 Peter 3:17
    You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
    
12. Cross References
    Romans 8:23
    And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
    Romans 8:25
    But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.