Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. New Living Translation For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace. English Standard Version You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. Berean Standard Bible You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. Berean Literal Bible Whoever are being justified in the Law, you are severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. King James Bible Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. New King James Version You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. New American Standard Bible You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by the Law; you have fallen from grace. NASB 1995 You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. NASB 1977 You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. Legacy Standard Bible You have been severed from Christ, you who are being justified by law; you have fallen from grace! Amplified Bible You have been severed from Christ, if you seek to be justified [that is, declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing with God] through the Law; you have fallen from grace [for you have lost your grasp on God’s unmerited favor and blessing]. Christian Standard Bible You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace. Holman Christian Standard Bible You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace. American Standard Version Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace. Aramaic Bible in Plain English You have been destroyed from The Messiah, those of you who are justified by that in The Written Law, and you have fallen from grace. Contemporary English Version And if you try to please God by obeying the Law, you have cut yourself off from Christ and his gift of undeserved grace. Douay-Rheims Bible You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you are fallen from grace. English Revised Version Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace. GOD'S WORD® Translation Those of you who try to earn God's approval by obeying his laws have been cut off from Christ. You have fallen out of God's favor. Good News Translation Those of you who try to be put right with God by obeying the Law have cut yourselves off from Christ. You are outside God's grace. International Standard Version Those of you who are trying to be justified by the Law have been cut off from the Messiah. You have fallen away from grace. Literal Standard Version you were voided from the Christ, you who are declared righteous in law; you fell away from grace; Majority Standard Bible You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. New American Bible You are separated from Christ, you who are trying to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. NET Bible You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace! New Revised Standard Version You who want to be justified by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. New Heart English Bible You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace. Webster's Bible Translation Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are justified by the law; ye have fallen from grace. Weymouth New Testament Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law: you have fallen away from grace. World English Bible You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace. Young's Literal Translation ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Freedom in Christ…3Again 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. 5But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness.… Cross References Romans 9:31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. Hebrews 4:1 Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. Hebrews 12:15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many. 2 Peter 3:17 Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing. Treasury of Scripture Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace. is. Galatians 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Romans 9:31,32 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness… justified. Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Romans 4:4,5 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt… ye. Galatians 1:6-9 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: … Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, … Jump to Previous Acceptance Alienated Christ Cut Declared Deprived Desire Effect Fallen Fell Freed Grace Justified Law Profit Righteous Righteousness Seeking Separated Severed Trying TurnedJump to Next Acceptance Alienated Christ Cut Declared Deprived Desire Effect Fallen Fell Freed Grace Justified Law Profit Righteous Righteousness Seeking Separated Severed Trying TurnedGalatians 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. (4) Christ is become of no effect unto you.--Literally, Ye were (or, more idiomatically, are) abolished, made nothing, from Christ; a condensed form of expression for, Ye are made nothing (unchristianised), and cut off from Christ. Your relations to Christ are cancelled, and you are Christians no longer. Are justified.--Strictly, seek to be justified. Ye are fallen from grace.--The Christian is justified by an act of grace, or free, unearned favour, on the part of God. He who seeks for justification in any other way loses this grace. Grace is not here a state or disposition in the believer, but a divine act or relation. Verse 4. - Christ is become of no effect unto you (κατηργήθητε ἀπὸ τοῦ Ξριστοῦ); or, ye have disconnected yourselves from Christ. The verb καταργεῖν is a favourite word with St. Paul, occurring twenty-seven times in his Epistles, including twice in the Hebrews, whilst in the rest of the New Testament it occurs only once, and that in the Pauline St. Luke (Luke 13:7). Its proper meaning is "to make inoperative," "make of no effect," as above (Galatians 3:17). The phrase, καταργεῖσθαι ἀπό, etc., occurs Romans 7:2, "If the husband die (κατήργηται ἀπό), she is discharged from the law of the husband;" it ceases to have any effect upon her; so ibid., ver. 6, "Now we have been discharged from the Law (κατηργήθημεν ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμον);" it has ceased to have any operation towards us. The phrase combines the two ideas - separation suggested by the ἀπό (comp. Romans 9:3), and the cessation of a work (ἔργον) or an effect till then wrought by one upon the other of the two parties: the two parties have nothing more to do with each other. The sense given in the Authorized Version is perfectly justifiable; only, perhaps, here the passive takes, as it sometimes does, the reflective sense of the middle verb; but it may be that the apostle means simply to express the result which has accrued. The aorist tense of κατηργήθητε, as well as of the ἐξεπέσατε, expresses the certainty and promptness with which the result followed upon the (supposed) act. Whosoever of you are justified by the Law (oi%tine e)n no/mw"" δικαιοῦσθε); such of you as go about to be justified by the Law. "By the Law;" literally, in the Law; seek to find in the Law the means of justification (cf. Galatians 3:11, and note). The present tense is the present of design or endeavour; the result in this case being, in fact, unattainable (Galatians 3:10, 21). Ye are fallen from grace (τῆς χάριτος ἐξεπέσατε); ye have fallen from the state of grace. "Grace" denotes the condition of acceptance with God into which faith in Christ brings us. Cf. Romans 5:2: "Through whom we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand." The verb ἐκπίπτω is used as in 2 Peter 3:17, "Lest - ye fall from (ἐκτέσητε) your own steadfastness." So πίπτω, Revelation 2:5, "Remember whence thou hast fallen [πέπτωκας: Receptus, ἐκπέπτωκας]." In classical Greek the verb was frequently used as a set term to describe those who, in the alternating success of adverse factions in the several independent cities of Greece, were compelled by a more powerful adverse party to submit to exile; its correlative verb being ἐκβάλλω. This fact leads Bishop Lightfoot, having an eye to the ἔκβαλε of Galatians 4:30, to render ἐξεπέσατε here, "are driven forth and banished with Hagar your mother." But this very idiomatic colour of meaning it seems very precarious to give to the word in the Greek of St. Paul. The more general signification of the term is amply sustained by its use in Plutarch as cited by Wetstein.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek {You} whoοἵτινες (hoitines) Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3748: Whosoever, whichsoever, whatsoever. are [trying] to be justified δικαιοῦσθε (dikaiousthe) Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 1344: From dikaios; to render just or innocent. by ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. [the] Law νόμῳ (nomō) Noun - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. have been severed κατηργήθητε (katērgēthēte) Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 2673: From kata and argeo; to be entirely idle, literally or figuratively. from ἀπὸ (apo) Preposition Strong's 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses. Christ; Χριστοῦ (Christou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus. you have fallen away ἐξεπέσατε (exepesate) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 1601: From ek and pipto; to drop away; specially, be driven out of one's course; figuratively, to lose, become inefficient. from τῆς (tēs) Article - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. grace. χάριτος (charitos) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 5485: From chairo; graciousness, of manner or act. 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