Galatians 5:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

If

Galatians 2:3

Acts 16:3

Why

2 Corinthians 11:23

The offence

General references

1 Corinthians 15:30

Galatians 2:18

Bible References

If

But not even Titus, who was with me, was forced to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

Paul wanted this man to go with him, so he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who lived in that region, since everyone knew that Timothy's father was a Greek.

Why

But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now.

These people who want to impress others by their external appearance are trying to force you to be circumcised, simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of the Messiah.

But they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews living among the gentiles to forsake the Law of Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children or observe the customs.

"Then he told me, "Go, because I'll send you far away to the gentiles.'"

More than 40 men formed this conspiracy.

And why in fact are we being endangered every hour?

Are they the Messiah's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.

The offence

Then he will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel he'll also be a stone with which someone strikes himself, a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare to those who live in Jerusalem.

Why not? Because they did not pursue it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on achievements. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble.

For the message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God's power to us who are being saved.

a stone they stumble over and a rock they trip on." They keep on stumbling because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

General references

And why in fact are we being endangered every hour?

For if I rebuild something that I tore down, I demonstrate that I am a wrongdoer.