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, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised; -

The same, would Paul have go forth with him, and took and circumcised him, on account of the Jews who were in those places; for they one and all knew that, his father, was, a Greek.

Why

But, just as, then, he that after the manner of the flesh had been born, did persecute him who had been born after the manner of the Spirit, thus, also now.

As many as are wishing to make a good show in flesh, the same, are compelling you to get circumcised, - only that, for the cross of Christ Jesus, they may not be suffering persecution!

Now they have heard it rumoured concerning thee, that, an apostacy, art thou teaching, from Moses, unto all the Jews, who are among the nations, telling them not to be circumcising their children, nor, by the customs, to be walking.

And he said unto me - -Be taking thy journey; because, I, unto nations afar off, will send thee.

And they were, more than forty, who, this sworn-confederacy, had formed.

Why also are, we, running into peril every hour?

Ministers of Christ, are they? As one deranged I am talking, I, above measure! - in toils, superabundantly, in prisons, superabundantly, in stripes, to excess, in deaths, oft, -

The offence

So shall he become a hallowed asylum, - But a stone to strike against, and a rock to stumble over unto both houses of Israel A trap and a snare to the dweller in Jerusalem;

Wherefore? Because, not by faith but as by works, have they sought it : they have stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

For, the discourse which concerneth the cross, unto them, indeed, who are perishing, is, foolishness; but, unto them who are being saved - unto us, it is, God's power.

And a stone to strike against, and a rock to stumble over: Who stumble because, unto the word, they do not yield, - unto which also they have been appointed;

General references

Why also are, we, running into peril every hour?

For, if, the things that I pulled down, these, again, I build, a transgressor, I prove, myself, to be.