Galatians 5

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Stand fast, therefore, in that spiritual liberty from the Law of Ceremonies, wherewith Christ hath made you free; and be not again drawn into a willing bondage and servitude unto them.

Galatians 5:2

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

There is more in this your yieldance to these rites, than ye are aware of: behold, I Paul say unto you, that if now, after ye have been informed so fully in the truth of the Gospel, ye be circumcised, as in obedience to the Law, Christ shall profit you nothing: ye do, what in you lieth, frustrate the death of your Saviour.

Galatians 5:3

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

For, I testify again to every man, that, whosoever is circumcised doth, by this sign, profess himself, and so becomes, bound to keep the whole Law, and every rite thereof: for circumcision is a badge of Judaism; and whosoever yieldeth thereunto makes himself liable to all those manifold and burdensome observations of the Law.

Galatians 5:4

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

It is a fearful, but most sure word; Whosoever of you seek to be justified by the Law, hath renounced the benefit of grace, and Christ is become of no effect unto him; forasmuch as the purpose of Christ’s coming, and all his active and passive obedience, was to free us from the Law, and to justify and acquit us from our sins.

Galatians 5:5

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

For we, who are renewed by the Spirit of God, are, by the same Spirit, taught to expect full Justification, from Faith in Christ, and not from the Works of the Law.

Galatians 5:6

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

For in Jesus Christ, and his Kingdom the Church, neither is any man the more respected for his circumcision, nor less regarded for his uncircumcision; but every man is accepted of God, according to that measure of true Faith, which he hath in him: I mean not an idle and dead belief, but a lively and operative Faith; such an one as worketh by love.

Galatians 5:7

Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

Ye went on very forwardly and commendably, in the course of Christianity: who did stand in your way, and stop those good proceedings of your obedience to the truth of the Gospel?

Galatians 5:8

This persuasion cometh not out of him that calleth you.

Surely, this persuasion of retracting you cometh not from God, who called you forward into this good way; but it comes from Satan, and his wicked instruments, your false teachers.

Galatians 5:9

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

But take heed, brethren, a little false doctrine may infect and poison your whole profession.

Galatians 5:10

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

And I am confident in you, through the goodness of God working in you, that ye will not be transported thus lightly with erroneous doctrine; but that ye will continue constant unto that truth, wherein ye have been informed: But whosoever he be, that hath thus troubled the peace of the Church, and laboured to seduce you, shall be sure to feel the just judgment of God upon him, for so great a sin.

Galatians 5:11

And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

And, whereas the false teachers have suggested to you, that I myself am a favourer of circumcision, and preach the lawfulness and expediency of it; they wrong both you and me, in this mis-information: for, if I do preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then that scandal and slander of the Cross, which the adversaries cast upon us (in teaching that by Christ crucified, and not by the Works of the Law, men are justified) is utterly at an end, and all is peace between the Jews and us.

Galatians 5:12

I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

I would to God, these injurious and vehement urgers of circumcision and other Jewish rites, were utterly cut off; that the Church of Christ might be at peace.

Galatians 5:13

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

For, brethren, ye have been, by virtue of your Christian profession, called into a liberty and freedom from legal observations: only, make ye a good use of this freedom; and do not so demean yourselves, as if ye thought that ye were hereby let loose to all inordinateness and licentious courses; but so serve one another by love, as that ye have care of the edification of each other in godliness.

Galatians 5:15

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

But, if ye fall foul upon each other by secret hostilities, and labour to undo the fame and good report of each other, and worry and tear each other with factious oppositions, take heed lest ye be the authors of each other’s endless confusion.

Galatians 5:16

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Walk ye and live, according to the information and guidance

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: &c.

For there is a continual enmity betwixt the flesh, which is our corrupted nature, and the Spirit, whereby we are regenerated; so as the flesh lusteth, &c.

From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

I have given you a true Apostolical decision of the controversy moved amongst you: let no man be further troublesome to me; but rest in this sentence of mine: well may I challenge this at your hands; for I bear in my body the marks of the sufferings, which I have endured for the name of our Lord Jesus.

Galatians 5:18

But if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

But if ye be led by the Spirit of God, ye are not under the bondage of the Law: but do, out of your free love unto God, yield cheerful obedience to him.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, &c.

Now the works of our corrupted and depraved nature are manifest, &c.

Galatians 5:24

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

And they, that are Christ’s, have so far crucified this corrupt nature, with the affections and lusts thereof, as that, howsoever they have some remainders of life in them: yet, they have not so much vigour, as to reign and rule in them.

Galatians 5:25

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

If then, we be persuaded, that the Spirit of God is in us, and that we have a true spiritual life in him, let us also walk, so, as may become the guidance and direction of the same Spirit.