4Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
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For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. …
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. …
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.
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Commentary
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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