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

Now if you forget the Lord your God at all and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

Then when many disasters and distresses overcome them this song will testify against them, for their descendants will not forget it. I know the intentions they have in mind today, even before I bring them to the land I have promised."

And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances -- those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don't come into this place of torment.'

With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation!"

testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

A debtor

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."

Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.'

General references

On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.

Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

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

But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.