Galatians 5:2-4

Christ Has Set Us Free

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.

1. 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.
   
2. Cross References
   Galatians 4:11
   I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
   
3. 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.
   
4. 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.
   
5. 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.
   
6. 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.