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

But even my companion Titus, Greek though he was, was not obliged to be circumcised.

so, as Paul wished him to go abroad with him, he took and circumcised him on account of the local Jews, all of whom knew his father had been a Greek.

Why

but just as in the old days the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit, so it is still to-day.

These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Now, they have heard that you teach all Jews who live among Gentiles to break away from Moses and not to circumcise their children, nor to follow the old customs.

But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"

There were more than forty of them in this plot.

Yes, and why am I myself in danger every hour?

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

The offence

And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.

a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.

General references

Yes, and why am I myself in danger every hour?

I really convict myself of transgression when I rebuild what I destroyed.