2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
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For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: …
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. …
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)In the former part of this chapter the apostle cautions the Galatians to take heed of the judaizing teachers, who endeavoured to bring them back under the bondage of the law. He had been arguing against them before, and had largely shown how contrary the principles and spirit of those teachers were to the spirit of the gospel; and now this is as it were the general inference or application of all…
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