(A)[a]Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be [b]circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

For I testify again to every man, which is circumcised, that he is bound to keep the whole Law.

Ye are (B)[c]abolished from Christ: whosoever are [d]justified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 5:2 Another obtestation wherein he plainly witnesseth that justification of works, and justification of faith cannot stand together, because no man can be justified by the Law, but he that doth fully and perfectly fulfill it. And he taketh the example of circumcision, because it was the ground of all the service of the Law, and was chiefly urged of the false Apostles.
  2. Galatians 5:2 Circumcision is in other places called the seal of righteousness, but here we must have consideration of the circumstance of the Baptism come in place of circumcision. And moreover Paul reasoneth according to the opinion that his enemies had of it, which made circumcision a piece of their salvation.
  3. Galatians 5:4 That is, as he himself expoundeth it afterwards, ye are fallen from grace.
  4. Galatians 5:4 That is, seek to be justified by the Law, for in deed no man is justified by the Law.

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