Galatians 5:3 — Community Reflections

GALATIANS 5:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 1

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

Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. — Paul's legal logic is unforgiving: circumcision ('peritemnō') obligates ('opheiletes' — bound as debtor) the one circumcised to keep 'holos nomos' (the whole law), every commandment, an impossible burden that circumcision sets in motion.

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Aisha Mbeki (Test User)7h ago

Finding rest in God — Galatians 5

Reading the Psalms alongside this gives a fuller picture of what the author was experiencing — both the anguish and the hope.. God is faithful in every circumstance.. I think this is a call to trust b...