Galatians 5:4,12 - Compare All Versions

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You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!

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.

I just wish that those troublemakers who want to mutilate you by circumcision would mutilate themselves.

You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.

I wish those who are disturbing you might also let themselves be mutilated!

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!

I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.

As for the rumor that I continue to preach the ways of circumcision (as I did in those pre-Damascus Road days), that is absurd. Why would I still be persecuted, then? If I were preaching that old message, no one would be offended if I mentioned the Cross now and then—it would be so watered-down it wouldn’t matter one way or the other. Why don’t these agitators, obsessive as they are about circumcision, go all the way and castrate themselves!

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by the Law; you have fallen from grace.

I wish that those who are troubling you would even emasculate themselves.

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].

I wish that those who are troubling you [by teaching that circumcision is necessary for salvation] would even [go all the way and] castrate themselves!

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

I wish those agitators would go so far as to castrate themselves!