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

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany 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 one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

They have been informed about you -- that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.

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

There were more than forty of them who formed this conspiracy.

Why too are we in danger every hour?

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

The offence

He will become a sanctuary, but a stone that makes a person trip, and a rock that makes one stumble -- to the two houses of Israel. He will become a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem.

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

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

General references

Why too are we in danger every hour?

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God's law.