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(A)For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.[a]

Be Not Misled.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 5:6 Cf. Rom 2:25–26; 1 Cor 7:19; Gal 6:15. The Greek for faith working through love or “faith expressing itself through love” can also be rendered as “faith energized by (God’s) love.”
  2. 5:7–12 Paul addresses the Galatians directly: with questions (Gal 5:7, 11), a proverb (Gal 5:9), a statement (Gal 5:8), and biting sarcasm (Gal 5:12), seeking to persuade the Galatians to break with those trying to add law and circumcision to Christ as a basis for salvation.

For in Christ Jesus(A) neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.(B) The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.(C)

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19 Circumcision means nothing, and uncircumcision means nothing; what matters is keeping God’s commandments.(A)

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19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing.(A) Keeping God’s commands is what counts.

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17 (A)So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

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17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,(A) the new creation(B) has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Or Christ, that person is a new creation.