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

Romans 9:32

1 Corinthians 1:18

1 Peter 2:8

General references

1 Corinthians 15:30

Galatians 2:18

Bible References

If

however, Titus who was then with me, being a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised:

so he took him and had him circumcised, out of regard to the Jews of that country, who all knew his father was a Greek.

Why

but as then, he that was born in the ordinary course of nature, persecuted him, who was born by an extraordinary power; even so it is now.

they who desire to make a figure in the world, constrain you to be circumcised, only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

now they have heard that you instruct the Jews that are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, by telling them they must not circumcise their children, nor observe the establish'd rites.

but the Lord said to me, "be gone, for I will send you far hence, even to the Gentiles."

the conspirators, who were above forty in number,

and why do we continually expose our lives to danger?

so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death.

The offence

why? because they sought it not by faith, but indeed by the works of the law: for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;

For tho' the doctrine of the cross seems folly to those that perish: yet we that are to be saved, do feel its energy is divine.

and which the architects rejected, will be an occasion to the incredulous of their stumbling, and bruising themselves thereby:

General references

and why do we continually expose our lives to danger?

on the contrary, if I re-establish what I have demolish'd, I show myself a prevaricator.