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, [although] he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

Paul wanted this one to go with him, and he took [him] [and] circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for [they] all knew that his father was Greek.

Why

But just as at that time the [child] born according to human descent persecuted the [child born] according to the Spirit, so also now.

As many as are wanting to make a good showing in the flesh, these are attempting to compel you to be circumcised, only so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

And they have been informed about you that you are teaching all the Jews [who are] among the Gentiles [the] abandonment of Moses, telling them not to circumcise [their] children or to live according to [our] customs.

And he said to me, 'Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles!'"

Now there were more [than] forty who had made this conspiracy,

And why are we in danger every hour?

Are they servants of Christ?--I am speaking as though I were beside myself--I [am] more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in [danger of] death many times.

The offence

And he will become like a sanctuary and a stumbling-stone, and like a stumbling-rock for the two houses of Israel, like a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Why that? Because [they did] not [pursue it] by faith, but as [if] by works. They stumbled over the {stone that causes people to stumble},

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

and "A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense," who stumble [because they] disobey the word to which also they were consigned.

General references

And why are we in danger every hour?

For if I build up again these [things] which I destroyed, I show myself [to be] a transgressor.