Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. New Living Translation I’ll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey every regulation in the whole law of Moses. English Standard Version I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. Berean Standard Bible Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. Berean Literal Bible Now again I testify to every man receiving circumcision that he is a debtor to keep the whole Law. King James Bible For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. New King James Version And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. New American Standard Bible And I testify again to every man who has himself circumcised, that he is obligated to keep the whole Law. NASB 1995 And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law. NASB 1977 And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law. Legacy Standard Bible And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law. Amplified Bible Once more I solemnly affirm to every man who receives circumcision [as a supposed requirement of salvation], that he is under obligation and required to keep the whole Law. Christian Standard Bible Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to do the entire law. Holman Christian Standard Bible Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to keep the entire law. American Standard Version Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Contemporary English Version If you do, you must obey the whole Law. English Revised Version Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. GOD'S WORD® Translation Again, I insist that everyone who allows himself to be circumcised must realize that he obligates himself to do everything Moses' Teachings demand. Good News Translation Once more I warn any man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the whole Law. International Standard Version Again, I insist that everyone who allows himself to be circumcised is obligated to obey the entire Law. Majority Standard Bible Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. NET Bible And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. New Heart English Bible Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Webster's Bible Translation For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Weymouth New Testament I once more protest to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law of Moses. World English Bible Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law; Berean Literal Bible Now again I testify to every man receiving circumcision that he is a debtor to keep the whole Law. Young's Literal Translation and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law; Smith's Literal Translation And again to any man circumcised, I testify, that he is debtor to do the whole law. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd I testify again to every man circumcising himself, that he is a debtor to the whole law. Catholic Public Domain Version For I again testify, about every man circumcising himself, that he is obligated to act according to the entire law. New American Bible Once again I declare to every man who has himself circumcised that he is bound to observe the entire law. New Revised Standard Version Once again I testify to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the entire law. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor I testify again to every man who is circumcised, that he is under obligation to fulfill the whole law. Aramaic Bible in Plain English But I testify again to every person who is circumcised, that he is obligated to observe all of The Written Law. NT Translations Anderson New TestamentI testify indeed again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to do the whole law. Godbey New Testament And again I witness to every man who is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law. Haweis New Testament And again, I testify to every man who is circumcised, that he is under an obligation to keep the whole law. Mace New Testament for I testify to every man that is circumcised, that he is under an obligation to perform the whole law. Weymouth New Testament I once more protest to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law of Moses. Worrell New Testament And I testify again to every man who is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Worsley New Testament And I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to the whole law. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Freedom in Christ…2Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.… Cross References Acts 15:10 Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear? Romans 2:25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. James 2:10 Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. Galatians 3:10 All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin. Romans 4:4 Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation. Philippians 3:2-3 Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh! / For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— Colossians 2:11-14 In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands. / And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead. / When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses, ... Romans 9:31-32 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. / Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, Hebrews 7:18-19 So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless / (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God. Deuteronomy 27:26 ‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ Leviticus 18:5 Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD. Ezekiel 20:11 And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them. Jeremiah 31:31-32 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. / It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. Treasury of Scripture For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. testify. Deuteronomy 8:19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. Deuteronomy 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. Nehemiah 9:29,30,34 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear… a debtor. Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. Matthew 23:16,18 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! … Jump to Previous Bound Circumcised Circumcision Debtor Declare Law Moses Obey Obligated Obligation Once Protest Receives Testify Undergoes Whole WitnessJump to Next Bound Circumcised Circumcision Debtor Declare Law Moses Obey Obligated Obligation Once Protest Receives Testify Undergoes Whole WitnessGalatians 5 1. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. and not to observe circumcision; 13. but rather love, which is the sum of the law. 19. He lists the works of the flesh, 22. and the fruits of the Spirit, 25. and exhorts to walk in the Spirit. Again I testify The word "testify" in Greek is "martureō," which means to bear witness or to affirm that one has seen, heard, or experienced something. Paul is emphasizing the seriousness of his message by using legal language, akin to giving a solemn testimony in a court of law. This repetition ("Again") underscores the importance of the message he is conveying to the Galatians, reminding them of the gravity of returning to the law after having received the grace of Christ. to every man who gets circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law He is a debtor.--He is under an obligation. Verse 3. - For I testify again (μαρτύρομαι δὲ πάλιν); I protest again. In using the word μαρτύρομαι, pro teste loquor, "I speak in the presence of a witness," the apostle intimates that he is making his affirmation with a definite sense of the Lord being his Witness (cf. Ephesians 4:17, "This I say and testify in the Lord"). The original construction and force of the verb are shown in Judith 7:28, Μαρτύρομαι ὑμῖν τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν. The apostle is wont to use it with a distinct sense of its emphatic import (see Acts 20:26; 1 Thessalonians 2:11). The word "again" points, not to the substance of the subsequent affirmation, as if it were a repetition of that mode in the preceding verse, which in fact it does not appear to be, but to the solemnity with which he makes this fresh affirmation. For the phrase, "I Paul say unto you," was one form of solemn affirmation which in effect gaged his personality as Christ's apostle and as acting in his name; and this "I protest" is another of equally solemn import. To every man that is circumcised (παντὶ ἀνθρώπῳ περιτεμνομένῳ); to every man that is having himself circumcised. St. Paul's statements elsewhere, and his own proceeding in circumcising Timothy, as well as the present context, make it certain that, however absolute and universal his affirmation at first sight seems to be, it is nevertheless meant to be taken as made with reference to certain understood conditions. Thus: "I protest to any one of you Gentiles, who, being already baptized into Christ, has himself circumcised with the view of winning righteousness and favour with God, by obeying this one prescription of the Law - that," etc. The conjunction δὲ is most probably the δὲ of transition (metabatic), introducing a fresh particular merely; and in this instance, as often, it needs not to be represented in translation at all. Certainly s for" is not its meaning. Possibly, as De Wette supposes, it points back, as an adversative, to the words," Christ shall profit you nothing," as if it were "but on the contrary." That he is a debtor to do the whole Law (o%ti o)feile/th ἐστὶν ὅλον τὸν νόμον ποιῆσαι); that he is under obligation (Greek, is a debtor) to do the whole Law. By having himself circumcised, he adopts the token of the Lord's covenant (Genesis 17:11, 13) made with those who were his people after the flesh; he enrolls himself with them to share with them their obligations. And to them the Lord had given the Law of Mount Sinai to be their appointed pedagogue till the Christ should come. "By being circumcised" (he means) "you of your own accord put yourself back afresh under this pedagogue, and just his bidding you must do. And for what? All the ordinances and ceremonies he puts you upon observing will leave you as far off as ever from remission of sins and justification with God! And this self-surrender to the pedagogue God has not asked for at your hands; while what he does require, that you withhold, even faith in him whom he hath sent: nay, not merely withhold your belief, but by open act and deed testify your disbelief in him." Under all that the apostle is here writing there appears to lie the principle, which, however, he has not distinctly stored, but which we see to be true, that circumcision was the peculiar badge of "Israel after the flesh," appertaining to them alone and not to be meddled with by any who did not mean to become naturalized as fellow-citizens with them. (For the use of ὀφειλέτης ἰστίν, comp. Romans 8:14.) The noun more commonly points to a debt incurred, or guiltiness; but here it simply denotes obligation.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Againπάλιν (palin) Adverb Strong's 3825: Probably from the same as pale; anew, i.e. back, once more, or furthermore or on the other hand. I testify μαρτύρομαι (martyromai) Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Singular Strong's 3143: (properly: To call (summon) to witness, and then absolutely) To testify, protest, asseverate; To conjure, solemnly charge. to every παντὶ (panti) Adjective - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. man ἀνθρώπῳ (anthrōpō) Noun - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being. who gets himself circumcised περιτεμνομένῳ (peritemnomenō) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 4059: To cut around, circumcise. From peri and the base of tomoteros; to cut around, i.e. to circumcise. that ὅτι (hoti) Conjunction Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because. he is ἐστὶν (estin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. obligated ὀφειλέτης (opheiletēs) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3781: From opheilo; an ower, i.e. Person indebted; figuratively, a delinquent; morally, a transgressor. to obey ποιῆσαι (poiēsai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do. the τὸν (ton) Article - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. whole ὅλον (holon) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3650: All, the whole, entire, complete. A primary word; 'whole' or 'all', i.e. Complete, especially as noun or adverb. Law. νόμον (nomon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. Links Galatians 5:3 NIVGalatians 5:3 NLT Galatians 5:3 ESV Galatians 5:3 NASB Galatians 5:3 KJV Galatians 5:3 BibleApps.com Galatians 5:3 Biblia Paralela Galatians 5:3 Chinese Bible Galatians 5:3 French Bible Galatians 5:3 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Galatians 5:3 Yes I testify again to every man (Gal. Ga) |
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