Galatians 5:3

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Galatians 5:3

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Testify

A debtor

Galatians 3:10

Deuteronomy 27:26

Matthew 23:16

General references

Bible References

Testify

But it shall be if thou forget, Yahweh thy God, and go after ether gods, and serve them, and bow thyself down to them, I testify against you to-day, that ye shall perish:

And it shall come to pass, when many calamities and misfortunes shall find them out, then shall this Song respond to their face, as a witness, for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of their seed, for I know their imagination, which they are forming to-day, ere yet I bring them into the land of which I sware unto their fathers.

and didst testify against them, to bring them back unto thy law, yet, they, dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, and, against thy regulations, they sinned, the which - if any son of earth shall do - then shall he live by them, - and yielded a rebellious shoulder, and, their neck, they stiffened, and hearkened not.

for I have five brethren; - that he may solemnly testify unto them, lest, they also, come into this place of torment.

And, with many different words, bare he frail witness, and went on exhorting them saying - Be saved from this perverse generation!

bearing full witness, both to Jews and to Greeks, as to the repentance due unto God, and as to belief on our Lord Jesus.

This, therefore, am I saying and protesting in the Lord: - that, no longer, ye walk even as, the nations, walk - in the vanity of their minds,

Not over-reaching and defrauding, in the matter, his brother; because, an avenger, is the Lord, concerning all these things, - even as we before told you, and solemnly called you to witness.

And, we, for ourselves have gazed, and are bearing witness - that, the Father, sent forth the Son, as Saviour of the world.

A debtor

For, as many as are of works of law, are, under a curse, - for it is written - Accursed, is everyone that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law to do them.

Cursed, be he that establisheth not the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say - Amen.

Alas for you, blind guides! that say - Whosoever shall swear by the Temple, it is, nothing, but, whosoever shall swear by the gold of the Temple, is bound:

General references

And, on the eighth day, shall the flesh of his foreskin be circumcised.

But, new wine, into unused skins, must be poured.

But, not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised; -

But, whatever things, unto me, were gain, the same, have I accounted, for the Christ's sake, loss;