Galatians 6:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Galatians 6:15 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Colossians 3:10-11
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: …
Galatians 5:6
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 4:24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Topics

Ablution Blessing Conversion Creature Death Formalism God Godliness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-18)

The apostle, having at large established the doctrine of the gospel, and endeavoured to persuade these Christians to a behaviour agreeable to it, seems as if he intended here to have put an end to the epistle, especially when he had acquainted them that, as a particular mark of his respect for them, he had written this large letter with his own hand, and had not made use of another as his amanuens…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. availeth--The oldest manuscripts read, “is” (compare Ga 5:6). Not only are they of no avail, but they are nothing. So far are they from being matter for “glorying,” that they are “nothing.” But Christ’s cross is “all in all,” as a subject for glorying, in “the new creature” (Ep 2:10, 15, 16). new creature--(2Co 5:17). A transformation by the renewal of the mind (Ro 12:2).